UCL offers a doctoral
scholarship to start in October 2014 and to carry research on:
Television subtitling for
deaf and hearing-impaired viewers: a route to improve English language skills
for UK migrants with normal hearing
Supervisor Pair: Professor
Bencie Woll and Dr Jorge Díaz-Cintas
Potential Student’s Home
Department: PaLS/DCAL
A major concern in relation
to migrants is the development of English language skills and of acculturation
to British society. Television has a powerful role to play in both of these.
There is evidence from several studies that use of television subtitling can
enhance literacy skills in deaf and hearing-impaired viewers – both children
and adults. The proposed project will explore the current and potential use of
television subtitling to support the development of spoken English and English
literacy in migrants to the UK with normal hearing. The first stage will
explore current uses of subtitling by migrants and attitudes to subtitling and
the development of English language skills; the second stage will develop an
intervention programme in conjunction with a small number of migrant advisory
groups and FE colleges offering English language courses for migrants. Skills
in English and acculturation/identity ratings will be measured both before and
after intervention for comparison with non-users of subtitling. Feedback from
users will form part of a guidance document for subtitlers and for those
involved in English language education for migrants. This project is unique in
applying provision for the deaf community to a wider population and combines
expertise in subtitling (Diaz-Cintas) and deaf people’s language development
and literacy (Woll).
Further details:
www.ucl.ac.uk/slms/aco/bat/gc/projects/23
www.ucl.ac.uk/slms/aco/bat/gc/projects/23
Dr Jorge
Díaz-Cintas
Director of
Centre for Translation Studies (CenTraS)
University
College London
50 Gordon
Square, Room 206
London WC1H
0PQ
Tel.: +44
(0)20 7679 9363
Internal:
09363
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