Visual Made Verbal, Verbal Made Visual in Language Learning
Elena Aleksandrova, Murmansk Arctic State University (Russian Federation)
Olesya Afanaseva, Murmansk Arctic State University (Russian Federation)
Abstract
The project involves discovering how modern ICT can be used in teaching a foreign language to translation and interpreting students. The goal is to show how the opportunities provided by the state-of-the-art technologies can supply a teacher with necessary tools for teaching languages for specific purposes: speech recognition software can be used in classes of Phonetics, Speech Practice, Consecutive and Simultaneous Interpreting. Reception studies have proved which speech recognition software can be used in class to improve students phonetics and speech coherence. Audio description techniques саn be used to practice narration skills. Exploiting the opportunities of respeaking and audio description studies in language learning the focus is made on the idea how to transfer the same information content between different means of expression, i.e. from audial to visual as well as from visual to audial. The project adopts new techniques related to and promoting accessibility thus making students aware of accessibility issues and becoming part of an equal society. Multidisciplinary nature of the project reveals completely new practical and theoretical solutions in language learning and teaching.
Keywords: Audio description, interlingual respeaking, intralingual respeaking, interpreting, translation;