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Article published In: COVID-19 and Current Changes in Translation and Interpreting Studies
Edited by Hendrik J. Kockaert
[The Journal of Internationalization and Localization 9:2] 2022
► pp. 230–252

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How COVID-19 changes the way we approach pedagogy for translation

ORCiD logo with link | Sun Yat-Sen University
Published online: 4 July 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/jial.00028.lia
Abstract
With the rapid development of digitisation and the dominance of social streaming platforms, the way we approach pedagogy for translation has changed significantly, especially under the circumstances of COVID-19. Teaching traditionally in the classroom seems insufficient to account for today’s overall distance learning atmosphere. Combined online and offline teaching models, this paper borrows the concept of “multimodality”, developed by Kress and van Leeuwen (Kress, Gunther, and Theo van Leeuwen. 2001. Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication. London: Arnold.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar, 4), to capture “when and how technologies are specialised or multi-purpose” in the application of remote teaching and learning for translation. Therefore, this article describes a teaching project which investigates the insights into three critical components inspired by non-professional subtitling and dubbing into a formal teaching context. These are a two-step pre-course preparation: a student-led questionnaire and an in-class quiz, the teamwork production of AVT works and a final post-reflection targeted at oral presentation and written review. Pedagogically, this collaborative approach enables students to improve translator competence, cultural awareness and technological capacities.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Non-professional subtitling and its relevance to pedagogy for translation studies
  • 3.Theoretical background
  • 4.Methodology: A project-based approach
  • 5.Case analysis, results and discussion
    • 5.1Pre-course preparation
    • 5.2Teamwork production of the AVT works
      • 5.2.1Justification of the selected materials to be (re)translated
      • 5.2.2Contextualising the case
    • 5.3Post-reflection oral presentation and written review
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgement
  • References
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