Didactic Intralingual Subtitling and Voice-Over to Enhance Writing and Speaking Skills Training English for Specific Purposes (ESP) Tutors and Teaching Pharmacy Postgraduates
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Language Education (LE) plays a crucial role in overcoming communication and cultural barriers, fostering global collaboration, and preparing learners for personal and professional challenges of an interconnected world. In this setting, the application of innovative language learning approaches, that can engage learners in a comprehensive way while fostering motivation, assumes paramount importance. Didactic Audiovisual Translation (DAT) emerges as a fitting paradigm within this framework, as it embodies a transdisciplinary approach which combines LE, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), and pedagogy to craft teaching resources that serve the needs of modern citizenship (Talaván and Tinedo-Rodríguez, 2023; Talaván et al., 2023). This study explores the potential synergy of combining didactic intralingual subtitling and voice-over to enhance writing and speaking skills of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) postgraduates as well as training ESP tutors in DAT materials creation. The research thus employed a two-part experimental procedure. Firstly, a case study was conducted with four ESP tutors who experienced an online training, aimed at equipping them with theoretical knowledge and hands-on practice to create two DAT-based Lesson Plans (LPs): one focused on subtitling and another on voice-over. Secondly, a pilot study involved nine ESP Pharmacy postgraduates who carried out the didactic intralingual keyword subtitling and voice-over LPs developed by the trained ESP tutors. The paper details the ESP training experience, drawing from data gathered through a feedback questionnaire and standardized open-ended interviews, offering insights into the online training. Then, it presents the pilot study's methodology, results, and data analysis of writing and speaking pre- and post-tests, of the final feedback questionnaire, and of observations from the teacher/researcher. Outcomes from the DAT online training provides meaningful insight on the experience encouraging for further repetitions. Results from the pilot study support previous research on the benefits of didactic subtitling and voice-over on the enhancement of writing and speaking skills.
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