Linguistic Diversity in the Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language: A Proposal for a Didactic Sequence Through the Subtitling of the Film “El Camino De Xico”

Audiovisual Translation (AVT), besides being a popular translation mode, has become a fertile ground for selecting materials for teaching and learning foreign languages (PARDO, 2022), particularly regarding subtitling (ARAÚJO, 2008; DÍAZ CINTAS; CRUZ, 2008; TALAVAN, 2010, 2011; LERTOLA, 2013, 2015; FERNÁNDEZ-COSTALES, 2021a; PARDO, 2022, among others). In light of this, we present a methodological proposal for a didactic sequence (DOLZ; NOVERRAZ; SCHNEUWLY, 2004) for teaching Spanish as a foreign language to higher education students. This proposal involves a subtitling task using the Mexican animated feature film “El camino de Xico” (NETFLIX, 2020) following the functionalist translation approach of Reiss and Vermeer (1996) and Nord (1991, 2012, 2016), which considers the linguistic and cultural diversity of the source and target texts. Drawing from realistic communicative situations provided by audiovisual materials (VANDERPLANK, 2019), we aim to encourage teachers to use subtitling as a tool to help their students recognize linguistic and extralinguistic factors, beyond the grammatical aspects of the language.