Veroz González, Azahara and Oaknín, Mazal (eds) (2018). AVT: Current Perspectives and Applications. e-Expert Seminar Series: Translation and Language Teaching I. UCO Press, Cordoba University Press: Córdoba, pp. 15, vid. 204 min. ISBN: 987-84-992

Abstract

This review provides insight into the e-book created following the first edition of the e-Expert Seminar Series: Translation and Language Teaching, held on the 8^th of November 2018 at University College London (UCL). These expert seminars, which are now into the planning stages of their fourth edition, are a joint venture between UCL (UK) and Universidad de Córdoba (Spain). This first edition focuses on the application of Audiovisual Translation in language-learning activities and comprises five dynamic chapters made up of four conference papers and a roundtable discussion, on topics ranging from subtitling for the Deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH) in video games to literary-language learning through dubbed text and localisation. The e-conference papers are presented in audiovisual format along with appended abstracts in written text. Contributors to the e-book, certain of whom presented in London and others via video-conferencing, represent five universities across the UK and Spain: the two host universities, Roehampton University, Universitat Jaume I and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. The collaboration of the host universities and involvement by academics from further afield has not only broadened the scope of the research area – insofar as modules, academic research, and language directionality differ between the institutions and the teaching scholars – but has created a space for dialogue in the educational community on the topic of translation as it relates to language teaching.