On the Use of Pronominal Verbs in Spanish by Belgian Flemish Students
An Analysis through Audio Description as a Didactic Resource
Keywords:
Pronominal verbs, audio description (AD), intersemiotic translation, interlinguistic translation, Spanish as a Foreign LanguageAbstract
This study explores the scope and limitations of integrating audio description in the Spanish as a Foreign Language classroom, focusing on the use of pronominal verbs, one of the most controversial topics in Spanish grammar (Mendikoetxea, 1999). The purpose was to investigate whether Belgian Dutch-speaking students, with a B2 level of Spanish at the time of the study, use pronominal verbs in the same way as Spanish natives do. Furthermore, the final aim of this paper was to find out whether inter-semiotic translation (i.e., audio description) also improves learning outcomes with regard to written expression in Spanish as a Foreign Language. The results confirmed that the 58 Belgian students use significantly fewer pronominal verbs than the 46 Spanish students when writing in Spanish. Furthermore, they also show that audio description as a mode of audiovisual translation in the Spanish as a Foreign Language classroom is perceived positively by students, by offering them the opportunity to be creative and by being more challenging in their Spanish practice.
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