Educational methodologies and didactic audiovisual translation: Results of an implementation of combined revoicing and subtitling in a class of primary education with the Montessori method

Among the new methodologies developed to teach the L2, Didactic Audiovisual Translation (DAT) has proven to be highly successful as it deals with the four skills in a multimodal environment, which appears to increase motivation. This paper presents the results of a DAT implementation in an Elementary classroom (11-to12-year-old children) in a school which follows the Montessori Method. Twenty-four children, divided into groups of four, chose their favourite scenes from the TV series Goenkale (broadcast on the Basque channel Euskal Televista 1) and translated, dubbed and subtitled them from their L1, Basque, into the L2, English, by means of the tool VideoPad. As Montessori Pedagogy does not include tests, the authors could not follow the experimental scheme of pre and post-test to observe any improvement in language acquisition. Data was therefore collected by the teacher, and subsequently analysed considering the mistakes made by the pupils during the process. Pupils additionally completed a questionnaire, which indicated high levels of satisfaction towards this approach, thereby opening a new didactic path within Montessori Methodology.