The expert in easy-to-understand language: A new educational and professional profile in the field of the Spanish language

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Published: May 8, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2020.12.10
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easy-to-understand language, easy-to-read language, plain language, EASIT, accessibility

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Blanca Arias-Badia
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1218-986X
Anna Fernández-Torné
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0132-5945

Abstract

The professional opportunities of students trained in languages are increasingly diversified in the globalized world. This article presents the results of a questionnaire focused on an emerging professional profile in the field of the Spanish language: the expert in the creation, revision and adaptation of easy-to-understand content. This profile is the main focus of interest of the teaching innovation project EASIT (Easy Access for Social Inclusion Training), which aims to describe this new profile to make it more visible and to propose a specific teaching program and training materials for it —until now, there is a poor academic offer for those who want to follow this path of specialization.

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Arias-Badia, B., & Fernández-Torné, A. (2020). The expert in easy-to-understand language: A new educational and professional profile in the field of the Spanish language. MonTI. Monographs in Translation and Interpreting, (12), 295–312. https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2020.12.10
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No. 12 (2020): Translation and Media Accessibility: from Theory to Practice / Traducción y Accesibilidad en los medios de comunicación: de la teoría a la práctica
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Author Biographies

Blanca Arias-Badia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Blanca Arias-Badia is a postdoctoral researcher (Juan de la Cierva programme) at Transmedia Catalonia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). She holds a PhD in Translation and Language Sciences, a MA in Comparative Literature and Literary Translation, and a BA degree in Translation and
Interpreting from Universitat Pompeu Fabra. In the course of her studies, she has undertaken research stays at King’s College London, University College London and Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. She is currently lecturing on
Translation and Applied Linguistics at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia and Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. She is also active as a literary and audiovisual translator.

Anna Fernández-Torné, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Anna Fernández-Torné holds a PhD in Translation and Intercultural Studies by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, a European Master’s degree in Audiovisual Translation by the Università degli Studi di Parma, a Master’s degree in Audiovisual Translation and a Postgraduate degree in Linguistic Assessment for the Audiovisual Media by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She has worked as a freelance translator since 1997, specialising in software and video games localisation, and in audiovisual translation since 2005. She lectures at the Master’s degree in Audiovisual Translation at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona since 2006. She has worked as a freelance translator since 1997, specializing in the localization of software and videogames, and as an audiovisual translator certified by Televisió de Catalunya (both from German and English).

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