Subtitling and dubbing as teaching resources in CLIL in Primary Education: The teachers’ perspective

Alberto Fernández Costales

doi:10.30827/portalin.vi36.16228

Authors

Alberto Fernández Costales University of Oviedo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30827/portalin.vi36.16228

Keywords:

Audiovisual translation (AVT), subtitling, dubbing, Primary Education, Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL).

Abstract

This paper explores the use of Audiovisual Translation (AVT) as a didactic tool in schools of Primary Education. The investigation of active subtitling and dubbing in formal contexts has delivered promising results concerning students’ motivation, the improvement of translation skills, and the promotion of oral and written comprehension and production. However, research in the field has predominantly concentrated on university students, and there is a paucity of studies scrutinising Primary Education. Also, there is a dearth of articles analysing teachers’ voices regarding the use of AVT in the classroom. Moreover, this is the first paper providing empirical results on the combined effects of subtitling and dubbing in bilingual education. The study comprised a sample of 31 teachers working in 8 public schools of Primary Education offering bilingual streams in Asturias, using a mixed design with quantitative (a survey) and qualitative (focus groups) techniques. The most salient findings underline that teachers consider AVT beneficial in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), as it promotes code-switching, students’ metalinguistic awareness, and working with the 4Cs in content-subjects. The paper also ponders the challenges identified by teachers concerning the use of AVT in Primary Education.

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Author Biography

Alberto Fernández Costales, University of Oviedo

I am an Associate Lecturer at the University of Oviedo (Spain), where I teach applied linguistics. My research interests lie primarily in foreign language teaching, bilingual education, Content and Language Integrated Learning, and Audiovisual Translation applied to language learning. In the last 5 years I have published 33 indexed papers and I have been engaged in 15 international research projects. I referee for several JCR journals in the fields of language teaching, applied linguistics, bilingual education, and Translation Studies, and I also evaluate projects for the Spanish National Agency for Evaluation and Prospective, the FNRS (Belgium), and the CFCA (Latvia). I have been a visiting scholar at the Imperial College of Science and Technology (London), the University of Melbourne (Australia), the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), the University of Regensburg (Germany) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. I have served as the Director for Internationalization and Graduate Programmes, and I have coordinated the Masters' Degree in Content and Language Integrated Learning. Currently, I coordinate the PhD Programme in Education and Psychology at the University of Oviedo. Since 2020, I am Associate Editor of Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice,

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