Sonia Gonzalez Cruz

The relation between subtitling and general translation from a didactic perspective

This project is framed within the field of the didactics of translation and it focuses on the relationship between the didactics of general translation and active subtitling as a didactic tool. Several empirical experiments prove that interlinguistic active subtitling allows for acquiring and developing certain translation skills and it also has a great impact on the students’ motivation. Active subtitling is a relatively recent activity that has generated a lot of interest particularly in the field of second-language acquisition, but it is also present within both the didactics of general translation and language teaching for translators. It is interesting to analyze the level of inclusion of these new resources into the existent curricula and observe to what extent these different teaching methods are being used in the translation classroom. Although subtitling has already become an independent discipline of study and it is considered to be a type of translation on its own, it is necessary to do further research on the different didactic varieties that this type of audiovisual translation offers. Therefore, the main objective of this project is to analyze the inclusion of interlinguistic active subtitling in general translation curricula at different universities.

Sonia Gonzalez Cruz is a predoctoral researcher at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). She holds a predoctoral grant from l’Agaur to develop her PhD thesis on the use of active subtitling in general translation curricula. Now she is working on the experimental part of her thesis and she is collecting data by means of on-line questionnaires which are being answered by translation professors and students. She currently teaches translation courses at graduate levels at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Also, she has presented her research work in different national conferences and international schools for young researchers and had the opportunity to publish part of her work in several journals.