Multimodal Texts and Translation Tasks in Spanish Foreign Language (SFL): The acquisition of reflexive clitic “se” by Dutch-speaking adults

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https://doi.org/10.18002/ehf.i44.7363

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Dutch speaking subjects, Spanish as a foreign language, clitic se, audio description, dubbing

Abstract

This article presents the results of an experimental study on the acquisition of the clitic se by Dutch-speaking students of Spanish as a foreign language in the third year of the Department of Translation, Interpretation and Communication at the University of Ghent. Based on a sequence taken from the anglophone film The Help (Taylor, 2011), one group of 35 Belgian participants carried out two tasks: an intersemiotic translation (they created an audio description script) and an interlingual translation (they translated the English dialogues into Spanish).

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Anne Vermeulen, Ghent University

Anna Vermeulen obtained a Master degree in Roman philology (French and Spanish) and holds a PHD in Linguistics and Literature of Roman Languages (Spanish) from the Catholic University of Louvain (KUL). She currently works as an associate professor at the Department of Translation, Interpretation and Communication of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of the Ghent University (Belgium) where she teaches Spanish Structures, Translation Spanish-Dutch and Audiovisual Translation (AVT). Her research and publications focus on translation strategies and techniques, pragmatic aspects and linguistic variation in AVT as well as AVT as a didactic tool in foreign language teaching and learning. As a visiting professor she held conferences and workshops at different  Universities in Spain and Latin-America. She is a member of the research group MUTLIPLES of the Ghent University and the ATLAS group of the UNED (Madrid).

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Published

2022-12-26

How to Cite

Escobar Álvarez, M. Ángeles, & Vermeulen, A. (2022). Multimodal Texts and Translation Tasks in Spanish Foreign Language (SFL): The acquisition of reflexive clitic “se” by Dutch-speaking adults. Estudios Humanísticos. Filología, (44), 45–65. https://doi.org/10.18002/ehf.i44.7363

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Monográfico 2022: Fenómenos de interferencia entre lenguas afines