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Integrating corpus‐based audio description tasks into an intermediate‐level German course
Author(s) -
SchaefferLacroix Eva
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of applied linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.712
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1473-4192
pISSN - 0802-6106
DOI - 10.1111/ijal.12294
Subject(s) - german , scripting language , computer science , sketch , course (navigation) , perception , corpus linguistics , multimedia , natural language processing , linguistics , psychology , engineering , programming language , philosophy , algorithm , neuroscience , aerospace engineering
This paper presents a method for designing corpus exploration tasks and integrating them into an intermediate‐level German course during which learners collectively produce the audio description (AD) of a film trailer. ADs are additional soundtracks that inform blind people about the visual events that are considered necessary to understand a film. The Audiodeskription corpus, available on Sketch Engine, contains the AD scripts produced for two German television series. Exploring such a corpus to (re)write an AD script is an activity that is likely to foster language awareness of features of linguistic items needed for describing spatial events and visual perceptions. The tasks designed tackle learning issues identified during the course implemented at the teacher training department, Sorbonne University.