Audio description training in Spain: a survey-based overview of teaching practices

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Published: Jan 30, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2019.11.6
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audio description, translation didactics, audiovisual translation, media accessibility, ADLAB PRO

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Nuria Mendoza Domínguez
Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
Anna Matamala
Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona

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 Audio description is a translation of images into words aiming to provide an alternative to the visual content for those who cannot access it. It can be considered an intersemiotic translation and, as such, it has often been taught as part of courses in audiovisual translation and media accessibility studies. However, studies on the specifics of the didactics of audio description are missing. This article presents the results of a questionnaire aiming to map the current situation regarding the teaching of audio description in Spain. It reports on the results obtained from 27 Spanish participants that answered a questionnaire developed as part of ADLAB PRO, an Erasmus+ project funded by the European Commission whose ultimate goal is to create didactic material for the training of audio describers. In order to contextualize such research, the article also provides an overview of the didactics of audio description in Spain.

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Mendoza Domínguez, N., & Matamala, A. (2020). Audio description training in Spain: a survey-based overview of teaching practices. MonTI. Monographs in Translation and Interpreting, (11), 155–185. https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2019.11.6
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Nuria Mendoza Domínguez, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona

Nuria Mendoza is currently a PhD student at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Since 2004 she has been working at the Universidad Nebrija, where she has been coordinating the Language Centre since 2009. She has also taught Audiovisual Translation there for the Modern Languages and Translation students. She holds a BA in German Studies from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, a MA in Audiovisual Translation, Localization, Subtitling and Dubbing from the Universidad de Cádiz/ISTRAD and a European MA in Audiovisual Translation from the Parma University (Italy).

Anna Matamala, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona

Anna Matamala, BA in Translation (UAB) and PhD in Applied Linguistics (UPF), is an associate professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Barcelona). Currently leading TransMedia Catalonia, she has participated and led projects on audiovisual translation and media accessibility. She has taken an active role in the organisation of scientific events (M4ALL, ARSAD), and has published in journals such as Meta, Translator, Perspectives, Babel, Translation Studies. She is currently involved in standardisation work. More information: gent.uab.cat/amatamala

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