And Jorge Diaz Cintas who will outline the current state
of research in didactic audiovisual translation and accessibility
together with its opportunities and challenges.
Speakers from Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America
will present the research findings
both face to face and online
and research papers will relate didactic audiovisual translation
to other disciplines such as corpus and cognitive linguistics,
as well as bilingual intercasual education.
We also have the pleasure
to have many attendees also face to face and online.
So, audiovisual translation is
is now considered a flourishing area of studies
within language education over the last few decades
and increasing growing interest among academics and teachers.
As a result, there is
a considered number of studies and publications on the subjects.
In the early days, people and also Diaz Jorge
actually, innovatively proposed
subtitling and dubbing as didactic audiovisual translation modes,
and these came true.
So, now we can have many modalities
that we can use in the classroom and in different combinations.
Experimental research merely developed
over the last two decades, as investigating the diverse
and DAT modes from multiple perspectives.
Subtitling and dubbing, of course, being the most added,
followed by audio description, voiceover,
subtitling and SDH (Subtitling for the Deaf and hard of hearing),
as well as for commentary, lately.
The great majority of experimental study we conducted it
face to face, mainly in universities, so we're looking forward
to see other context as well.
English was usually one of the two languages within the studies
always being, well, most of the time being, the target language.
So, we also welcome further studies on different combinations and languages.
So, besides scholars and teachers, also European institutions
also at national level, they have recognized
the potential of audiovisual translation
in foreign language teaching, and they have funded different projects.
So, the first project they actually started this was 'LvS'
(Learning via Subtitling) and people from the same project
they did a follow up, which was that little project,
which was also one of the lasts times we met with
all these wonderful scholars.
And Clipfair was an innovation because it gave a platform that
students and teachers alike, would use for didactic audiovisual translation.
And then, more recently, PluriTAV that was developed in Spain,
it was a national project to promote plurilingual education.
So, building on these previous experiences,
TRADILEX, this new project that is going to end soon
has promoted and investigated the potential benefits of didactic
audiovisual translation in foreign language education
and it has implemented a sequence with different AVT modes that students
and teachers have tested,
so we also can see that with more than 500 people testing
this new methodology, and it worked.
So we're very happy with that.
Well, among the main outcomes of the project,
we can mention the MOOC, that is hosted UNED abierta
and we actually had three editions so far, so we're very happy with that.
But we also have an upcoming platform
that would be freely available for teachers and students,
they would be able to use differnt
lesson plans that we have created within the project
and we will continue creating as well.
And then, there will be also a manual of good practice.
This will be also for teachers and researchers alike.
So, as I mentioned, the TRADIT conference will be
the closing act of the TRADILEX project.
We are looking forward to
getting more insights on the project, and inspiration for future research.
TRADILEX has been wonderfully coordinated by Dra Noa Talavan.
We would like to deeply thank her
for paving the way, first of all,
in didactic audiovisual translation, for inspiring us every day,
and for being able to create such a successful
research and teaching-innovation projects.
So, let me conclude by thanking
all of you for being here today, for this amazing event,
many thanks again for hosting it,
and well, I hope it will be the first of many more to come,
so enjoy the conference. Thank you very much.
Thank you, Mrs. Jennifer Lertola.
Now I give the floor to the President of TRADIT23,
professor at UNED, Mrs. Noa Talaván Zanón.
Thank you, Vice-Chancellor.
We really appreciate you being here with us to open this conference.
Ok, well, I go on.
Okay, Sorry.
So welcome everybody, to the first international conference
in didactic audiovisual translation and media accessibility.
Those who know me have never seen me read
when I present or when I speak, it's not my thing
and I don't really like it very much; but if I don't read,
I won't be able to thank everybody that I need to thank for this
in these 5 minutes, or a little bit more than 5 minutes,
if you forgive me.
So I'll do like a mixture.
I'm not going to be able to read all the way through.
First of all,
thank you all for the interest that you've shown both in the call
for papers issued almost a year ago, and for the massive attendance
face to face, because we have almost 100 attendees,
and to be here, to have traveled all the way to Madrid to share these days with us.
I think it is the first time since I started here at the UNED back in 2005,
where we have more people here than online,
which is surprising and refreshing at the same time.
I think more than double face to face than online, which is something that
it's difficult to to believe.
Right. So we really appreciate this acceptance and attendance
and your interest in this conference
and in one of our favorite topics, mine for sure,
which is didactic audiovisual translation and didactic media accessibility.
So, thank you for for being here.
And I want to thank all the people who have made this conference possible,
starting with the various institutional sponsors.
First of all, the Ministry of Science and Innovation,
who has sponsored the TRADILEX project,
where this conference was included.
Then our university, the UNED through UNED50,
who have, well we have here our Vice Chancellor Anna Maria Lisbona,
here today on their behalf.
Second, our facultad de Filologia,
that has always supported us in all related initiatives on its behalf,
we have Beatriz Perez Cabello de Alba, our Vice-Dean,
who will speak in a few minutes.
And finally, our departamento de filologías extranjeras
y sus lingüísticas, our Department of Foreign Languages,
who were the first ones to support this event,
almost a year ago, and on their behalf we have here today
our head of department, María Dolores Castillo,
who will have the floor also in a few minutes.
So, thank you. And I would also like to thank the support of the Escuela
de Doctorado through their coordinator of our programa
de doctorado en Filología, estudios linguisticos y literarios
Dr. SalvaTore Bartolotta,
who has excused his presence here today due to health reasons.
Thank you, Salvatore, for including this conference
within the yearly activities of the PhD candidates of our PhD school program.
Now, and I hope I don't get too emotional here,
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank, from the very bottom
of my heart, to all the TRADIT and TRADILEX members,
to the team who have worked really hard
both, in a project for almost three years now,
and in the organization of this event and who have always put up
with my controlling organization requirements and and moods.
And your TRADILEX, your TRADIT23
and we would not be here today
if it weren't for the wonderful group you form,
and for all the time, effort and passion
you've always put in this to make this happen.
I'm not going to give the names of all of you
because you're almost, well, you're 27, if I count it right.
I tried to count it right, but it's like a big number
and because we studied a little bit less
and we've grown in numbers, as the project progressed,
so... let me thank Jennifer Lertola, who just spoke wonderfully
about didactic audiovisual translation, on your behalf.
Last but not least, I'm going to name our plenary speakers
because I'm very grateful for their acceptance
of this invitation from minute one.
So, in the order that they will be speaking,
Agnieszka Szarkowska, Frederic Chaume, Anna Marzà and Jorge Díaz Cintas, thank you.
And also, of course, to the scientific committee
made up of 21 wonderful researchers plus the TRADIT members, of course,
who also accepted to collaborate with us for the peer-review process
and had, in the end, a little bit more work
than originally intended; because of all the big number
of proposals we finally received.
So, thank you really.
Thanks to fundación UNED, as well, for dealing with economic matters
which are always so tricky to manage, especially to Rafael Pérez,
who is with us, outside, in the reception desk, together with our five
student collaborators Fer, Sara, Martie, Maria del Carmen and Gael,
who you'll see around with that yellow bracelets
and who I really thank as well,
and who can help you in anything you may be needing.
To close my intervention, some practical information
about these two days that you'll be spending with us.
You have, I guess, you already have your bags and ID badges,
if not they're outside of the reception desk.
In that sense, I would really like to thank our publishing sponsors,
who are also outside with their stands
and you will be able to visit them after, in the breaks.
Trinity, Cambridge University Press,
Oxford University Press, National Geographic Learning
and Sindéresis for their support,
all the merchandizing and for being, well, they're also from the start.
Now on the certificates issue,
certificates of attendance can be downloaded online
once the conference ends, to the same system
you've registered, through Fundación UNED,
And as the certificates for the speakers, the chairs will give them to you.
Oral sessions will be held here in Sala de Grados,
which is right, around the corner. next to the cafeteria.
And then there are two rooms on the first floor,
which are not far away,
but maybe a little bit difficult to find for the first time.
But there are signs around,
and you can ask the collaborators as well to help you find them.
And in the parallel sessions, we will be having half an hour's
sessions, half an hour talks
because the idea is to have 20 min talk and 10 min questions
so that people can really move around,
You can have your questions right after your talk and then you can move around
and we'll try to, fingers crossed, to stick to time, so that you don't
need to stay in the same room for the whole Parallel session.
Coffee breaks will be held in the cafeteria, just around the corner,
You have signs outside, but you won't miss it because it's less than a min away.
Lunch breaks, however, are in the building
next door, there, which is Facultad de Psicología.
It's really close to the door, as well
and so you won't miss it either.
And as to our tour around Madrid this evening,
those of you who are interested, you don't need to register or anything,
We'll meet at 8:00 in the evening in Plaza Mayor,
opposite to the statue of, or just below the statue,
anyway, that you'll find at
the center of the square, which is Philipe the third.
And then, if you registered for the dinner that
you needed to register, we send a few emails in that regard to that, this evening
it's going to be real close to the point where the tour ends,
in Plaza de Oriente and the dinner place is close by.
We can go all together on foot.
And that those of you who don't come to the tour,
well, you have the address in the program on our website,
it's at 9:30.
So, welcome again.
I hope you enjoy TRADIT23 and see you around.
And thank you again.
Thank you, Noa. Now I give the floor to
the Director of the Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistic at UNED,
Dolores Castillo.
Thank you so much.
So, it is my great pleasure to be here today.
As the opening of this first international conference
on Didactic Audiovisual Translation and Media accessibility.
It is a real honor for our department to collaborate
and host this great event.
Many thanks to the organizing committee for their hard work,
and I would like to express my special thanks to the TRADIT research group
headed by our colleague Dr. Talavan.
As you probably know, and have told you all, Jennifer, I think,
the conference is the highlight of the research project
led by her, the TRADILEX project.
So, this project was carried out within the Department of
Foreign Languages and Linguistics, which I have the honor of directing,
in which not only outstanding research is performed,
but also transferred to society,
as in this brilliant TRADILEX project example.
I would, therefore, like to invite you all to visit our website.
I just want to give you the following data.
We are the largest department of the UNED.
Today we are 57 teachers and researchers, including
two postdoctoral researchers and five pre doctoral researchers.
We are involved in three consolidated research groups,
which the main researchers from our department,
whose production can be consulted
also in the recently launched research portal of our university.
We are currently researching four competitive projects
of our Education Ministry and a European one, also.
So, I'm sure this first conference will make a significant contribution
to the debate and reflection on this exciting topic.
And most importantly, I'm sure it's going to be the first of many.
Congratulations on pioneering this important research area
and my best wishes for a very, very successful conference.
Enjoy Madrid also.
Thank you very much.
Now I give the floor to
Mrs Beatriz Pérez Cabello de Alba.
Thank you Vice-Chancellor.
So it is a great pleasure and honor to be part of these opening ceremony
and to share this special event with the Vice Chancellor
for students and inclusion,
the head of the Department of Foreign Languages
and the President and the Vice President of the Conference,
speakers, researchers and students,
oth in-person and online.
I would like to thank Dr. Talaván for inviting me.
The faculty of Philology is very pleased to have researchers
such as Dr. Noa Talaván, who has highly contributed
to the recognition of Didactic Audiovisual Translation as a scientific discipline.
She has delved into the study of Audiovisual Translation for years now
and she believed that audiovisual translation
had potential benefits as our didactic resource
in foreign language learning, for integrated skills enhancement.
And, that is what she, together with other colleagues from our faculty
and other universities, have analyzed in the TRADILEX project,
which is started in 2020.
Didactic Audiovisual Translation has proven to be highly effective
in the language classroom and in online environments.
And here we are today holding this first international conference
on Didactic Audiovisual Translation and media accesibility
to share findings and challenges
in the realm of Second Language Teaching and learning.
The fact that Didactic Audiovisual Translation is also closely
related to other areas, such as corpo linguistics,
eye tracking, cognitive linguistics,
gender studies, bilingual and intercultural education,
English for specific purposes, to name just a few...
It makes it very useful and versatile in the field
of applied linguistics.
Last but not least, I would like to highlight
the social and human perspective of the TRADILEX project.
First, promoting values through the translation of videos.
Second, engaging with topics related to social issues
through the translation of videos regarding for instance
racism, poverty, human rights, gender equality, etc..
Third, helping people with visual and auditory disabilities
and giving them the opportunity
to having access to materials related to Second Language Learning.
I'm convinced this is going to be a very productive
and thought-provoking conference
and that we shall a great success.
Thank you.
Quiero agradecer la invitación a inaugurar
este congreso a la profesora Noa Talaván
y a todo su equipo, especialmente al comité organizador
y al comité cientifico y a todos los asistentes.
Es para nosotros una alegría
ver los salones de actos llenos, con más asistentes
presenciales que online.
Un saludo también para quienes, gracias a la tecnología, pueden seguirnos.
Quiero disculpar la presencia
de nuestro rector Ricardo Mairal, le hubiera encantado
estar aquí. Además, es un area que el conoce con detalle
pero por incompatibilidad no ha podido estar con nosotros.
Ni siquiera está en Madrid.
Quiero darles la bienvenida a Madrid, he escuchado
algunos de los eventos que van a tener lugar
esta noche, en una de las localizaciones más bonitas de Madrid.
Quiero darles la bienvenida a esta ciudad,
una ciudad especialmente acogedora y con muchas oportunidades de ocio,
como van a poder disfrutar, de ocio y cultura.
Pero sobre todo quiero darles la bienvenida a nuestra universidad.
Nuestra universidad es la Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia,
es una universidad semi-presencial, con sedes por todo el mundo, con más de 60
sedes en España y 20 en el extranjero.
Lo que nos convierte en el campus más grande de Europa.
Sobre todo también por el número de estudiantes, más de 200 mil.
Este curso además estamos de celebración,
celebramos el 50 aniversario.
Igual que en el congreso, contamos con estudiantes
repartidos por todo el mundo y vuestra presencia aquí
es también una muestra de la diversidad,
de interculturalidad y el origen de todos vosotros.
He escuchado que contamos con participantes practicamente de todo el mundo.
Y es uno de los valores que comentaré después,
esa diversidad e interculturalidad
a la que me referiré después. Pero de lo que más orgullosos nos sentimos
en nuestra universidad no es de las cifras,
sino que estamos muy orgullosos de considerarnos los más inclusivos.
¿Por qué?
Pues porque el 40% de los estudiantes
universitarios españoles estudian con nosotros, en la UNED.
En este curso se han matriculado 9 mil estudiantes con discapacidad
y enlazando también con lo que
comentaba la Vice Decana de la facultad de Filologia,
forma parte del ADN de la UNED no dejar a nadie atrás.
No solamente por justicia social, estoy hablando de personas con discapacidad
se ha hablado de equidad, de esa brecha de genero
y para nosotros no solo es por justicia social, sino que
es una cuestión de efectividad. Dejar atrás a esa gente
constituiría dejar atrás mucho talento. Para nosotros es una seña de identidad
y de lo que más orgullosos nos sentimos.
Una universidad como la nuestra,
con una gran cantidad de material audiovisual
que ofrece a nuestros estudiantes por nuestras características;
en una universidad como la nuestra hablar de accesibilidad y de Traducción Didactica
pues es algo que para nosotros en el vicerectorado de estudiantes e inclusión
es, no solamente el día a día,
sino que es nuestra brújula.
El tratar de llegar ese material accesible
en las mejores condiciones didácticas y que todos nuestros estudiantes
con las características que les diferencien, puedan tener acceso a ellos.
Todos los avances que la investigación que estáis desarrollandi
muchos de vosotros, nos aporte en esta materia,
va a constituir nuestra herramienta de trabajo.
Y es que la relevancia de la TAV Didáctica encaja muy bien dentro de estas
metodologías activas de aprendizaje que pretenden
desarrollar el conocimiento del idioma, pero además
también las habilidades, las competencias,
esas destrezas necesarias para adquirir esa
esa competencia lingüística, para dominar el idioma.
La investigación. y además pues se puede trabajar de manera paralela
tanto en el aula, como en online, todas esas competencias o habilidades
que quizás no tengan tanto que ver con el aprendizaje de la lengua, pero que
sin ellas no estaríamos aquí aprendiendo.
La investigación que el equipo TRADIT está desarrollando
junto con otros equipos de investigación
del departamento y de la facultad. En este caso,
vamos a centrarnos en TRADIT, muestra el impacto que tiene sobre el aprendizaje
el uso de la traducción didáctica.
Por destacar un ejemplo, se ha encontrado que usando esta metodología
se desarrolla la competencia de interculturalidad.
Incluso a las emociones positivas que desprenden.
Como decía, es muy importante, no solamente por esa interculturalidad
sino también porque este campo de investigación, yo creo que
consigue unir esa interdisciplinaridad
tan importante para una universidad
y para la ciencia, uniendo la tecnología
que tanto nos ayuda, en esta parte más social,
de llegar a todos, pero también como hemos vivido en la pandemia
pues, de superar esa dificultad
de no poder asistir al aula pero seguir trabajando
pero contribuir a ese aprendizaje.
Tenemos la tecnología, tenemos la docencia
tenemos la filología, hemos conseguido unir muchas más disciplinas.
Debo terminar agradeciendo el esfuerzo de todos los investigadores
que trabajan en este area, por desarrollar metodologías para todos los docentes
y mejorar el aprendizaje de lenguas desde el rigor que aporta la investigación.
Estoy segura de que este congreso va a ser muy fructífero
para todos ustedes, para todos vosotros, pero además
creo que es el momento de disfrutar, porque constituye también
un hito, después de esos 3 años de investigación en un proyecto.
Pero es un momento de demostrar a todos
vuestros resultados y de compartirlos que es lo más bonito que tiene la ciencia
y lo más bonito que tienen estos eventos, que es
permitir conoceros, permitir compartir vuestros descubrimientos
y que, poco a poco, todos,
incluso los que no estamos en ese ámbito, podamos beneficiarnos de
todo lo que habéis trabajado. Asi que, nada más.
As a vice chancellor of this university,
it's an honor and a source of satisfaction for me
to declare open the first international conference on
Didactic Audiovisual Translation and Media accesibility.
Thank you very much.