Integrating corpus‐based audio description tasks into an intermediate‐level German course

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.