This document outlines a collaborative project for students to work in groups to translate, subtitle, and dub a video from a Spanish/Catalan TV show into English. The objectives are to learn about audiovisual translation strategies, practice language skills, and interact with foreign students. The plan includes lessons on translation techniques, tools for subtitling and dubbing, applying these skills to translate a video, and providing feedback. Students will be assessed based on their translated video, blog posts, questionnaires, peer evaluations, and attitude.

1. A FIRST APPROACH
TO AUDIOVISUAL
TRANSLATION
Margaret Pons

2. LIST OF CONTENTS
 DESCRIPTION
 OBJECTIVES
 PLANNING
 TASKS AND ACTIVITIES
 ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

3. DESCRIPTION
This is a collaborative project! You will work in groups to…
Translate, subtitle and dub a video from a Spanish/Catalan TV
series/show into English
Publish your result in the class blog and watch other videos from
foreign students
Ask for feedback on your video and answer to questionnaires
about other students’ videos

4. OBJECTIVES
You are going to …
1. Learn about translation and audiovisual translation
strategies.
2. Learn how to use ICT resources to subtitle and dub a
video into another language.
3. Improve your level of English: you will practice reading,
listening, writing and speaking!
4. Work in groups to develop your personal and social
skills.
5. Get in touch with foreign students of English!

5. PLANNING
 Presentation (1h)
 Translation strategies and techniques (and practice)
(3h)
 Subtitling and dubbing videos (and practice) (3h)
 Group work: dub and subtitle your video! (6h)
 Watching other group’s videos & helping (1h)
 Creating questionnaire to assess your video (1h)
 Watching foreign student’s videos and commenting
them (3h)
 Getting results and assessing the project (2h)

6. TASKS AND ACTIVITIES
1. Learn about translation strategies for dubbing and
subtitling
2. Learn
how to use
Amara:
subtitling
youtube
videos online

7. TASKS AND ACTIVITIES
3. Learn how to use programs for dubbing: Audacity and
Yamb

8. TASKS AND ACTIVITIES
4. Apply previously learnt skills to dub and subtitle your
video
5. Watch other videos and help in their improvement
6. Design a questionnaire to value your work
7. Watch foreign students’ translations of TV
series/shows
8. Answer to foreign students’ questionnaires
9. Evaluate the project, your own success and the
progress of the other members in your group.

9. TASKS AND ACTIVITIES
And you can do most of that in the Project Blog!

10. ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
 Video – according to rubric
(language, translation) 65%
 Minutes (language, social skills)
5%
 Blog posts and questionnaires
(language, social skills) 15%
 Peer evaluation /co-evaluation
sheet and project assessment
sheet (language, personal and
social skills) 5%
 Motivation and positive attitude
towards the project 10%

11. For more information… ask your teacher (=me)
ENJOY!