The project SubESPSKills: Subtitling tasks for students of Business English to improve written production skills

This study accounts for the results obtained from a teaching innovation project called SubESPSKills (Subtitling tasks in the English for Specific Purposes class to improve written production skills) with a control and experimental group of undergraduates taking a course on Business English. The stud...

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Autores: Avila Cabrera, José Javier, Corral Esteban, Avelino
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/710575
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/710575
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2021.02.004
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:English for specific purposes
Reverse subtitling
English written production
Foreign language learning
Business English
Filología
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spelling The project SubESPSKills: Subtitling tasks for students of Business English to improve written production skillsAvila Cabrera, José JavierCorral Esteban, AvelinoEnglish for specific purposesReverse subtitlingEnglish written productionForeign language learningBusiness EnglishFilologíaThis study accounts for the results obtained from a teaching innovation project called SubESPSKills (Subtitling tasks in the English for Specific Purposes class to improve written production skills) with a control and experimental group of undergraduates taking a course on Business English. The study was conducted during the 2018–2019 academic year at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. Among our main goals was the improvement of writing production skills in the English for Specific Purposes class. In order to do so, reverse subtitling was used as an audiovisual translation tool to enhance participants’ written skills in a course of Business English (Degree in Commerce). With the aim of using reverse subtitling as a tool for the practice of writing in English as a foreign language, the participants were required to submit a number of activities of written production on topics related to business and commerce. Additionally, they had to subtitle two videos from Spanish/Chinese into English, related to the aforementioned area of knowledge. Subsequently, a mixed method was followed since quantitative and qualitative data were gathered and analysed. The results presented here aim to prove the potential of active reverse subtitling as a tool for foreign language learningElsevierDepartamento de Filología InglesaFacultad de Filosofía y Letras20212021-01-01research articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1AMhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_ab4af688f83e57aainfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10486/710575https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2021.02.004reponame:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAMinstname:Universidad Autónoma de MadridInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/7105752026-06-23T12:46:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The project SubESPSKills: Subtitling tasks for students of Business English to improve written production skills
title The project SubESPSKills: Subtitling tasks for students of Business English to improve written production skills
spellingShingle The project SubESPSKills: Subtitling tasks for students of Business English to improve written production skills
Avila Cabrera, José Javier
English for specific purposes
Reverse subtitling
English written production
Foreign language learning
Business English
Filología
title_short The project SubESPSKills: Subtitling tasks for students of Business English to improve written production skills
title_full The project SubESPSKills: Subtitling tasks for students of Business English to improve written production skills
title_fullStr The project SubESPSKills: Subtitling tasks for students of Business English to improve written production skills
title_full_unstemmed The project SubESPSKills: Subtitling tasks for students of Business English to improve written production skills
title_sort The project SubESPSKills: Subtitling tasks for students of Business English to improve written production skills
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Avila Cabrera, José Javier
Corral Esteban, Avelino
author Avila Cabrera, José Javier
author_facet Avila Cabrera, José Javier
Corral Esteban, Avelino
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author2 Corral Esteban, Avelino
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Departamento de Filología Inglesa
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv English for specific purposes
Reverse subtitling
English written production
Foreign language learning
Business English
Filología
topic English for specific purposes
Reverse subtitling
English written production
Foreign language learning
Business English
Filología
description This study accounts for the results obtained from a teaching innovation project called SubESPSKills (Subtitling tasks in the English for Specific Purposes class to improve written production skills) with a control and experimental group of undergraduates taking a course on Business English. The study was conducted during the 2018–2019 academic year at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. Among our main goals was the improvement of writing production skills in the English for Specific Purposes class. In order to do so, reverse subtitling was used as an audiovisual translation tool to enhance participants’ written skills in a course of Business English (Degree in Commerce). With the aim of using reverse subtitling as a tool for the practice of writing in English as a foreign language, the participants were required to submit a number of activities of written production on topics related to business and commerce. Additionally, they had to subtitle two videos from Spanish/Chinese into English, related to the aforementioned area of knowledge. Subsequently, a mixed method was followed since quantitative and qualitative data were gathered and analysed. The results presented here aim to prove the potential of active reverse subtitling as a tool for foreign language learning
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