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JENNIFER LERTOLA

COORDINADOR/A ITALIANO AVANZADO B2 CUID

PROFESORA AYUDANTE DOCTORA

FILOLOGÍAS EXTRANJERAS Y SUS LINGÜÍSTICAS

FACULTAD DE FILOLOGÍA

jlertola@flog.uned.es

(+34) 91398-913987281

Academic Information

Jennifer Lertola holds a degree in English and Spanish Language and Literature from the Università degli Studi di Genova (2008), a DITALS Master's degree from the Università per Stranieri di Siena (2009) and a PhD (with European Doctorate) in Applied Linguistics from the National University of Ireland, Galway (2014). She also holds a Master's Degree in English and Spanish Language and Literature from the Università del Piemonte Orientale (2018) and a Master's Degree in Teacher Training for Compulsory Secondary Education, Vocational Training and Language Teaching from the Universidad Nebrija (2020).

Academic positions held

2024-. Assistant Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) in the Departamento of Filologías Extranjeras y sus Lingüísticas, Facultad de Filología.

2019-2024. Assistant Professor at the Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italia. In the Dipartimento di Sviluppo Sostenibile e Transizione Ecologica-DISSTE (2023-2024), Dipartimento di Studi per Economia e l'Impresa-DISEI (2019-2023) and Centro Linguistico-CLUPO.

2017-2019.Adjunctc Professor of English at the Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italia. Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici.

2015-2018. Tutor at the Università di Bologna, Italia. Scuola di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Moderne

2014-2015. Tutor at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Irlanda. School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.

2009-2014. Doctoral Fellow at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Irlanda. School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.

Research activity

Her main research topic is Didactic Audiovisual Translation. She is the author of several papers on audiovisual translation in language learning. She is a member of the international research group TRADIT (Didactic Audiovisual Translation), which has developed the research project I+D+i TRADILEX (Audiovisual Translation as a Didactic Resource in Foreign Language Education, PID2019-107362GAI00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) during between 2020-2023 and of the teaching innovation group (GID) ARENA (accessibility, audiovisual translation and language learning) both based at the UNED. She has also participated in the European Project ClipFlair (Foreign Language Learning through Interactive Revoicing and Captioning of Clips, 519085-LLP-1-2011-1-ES-KA2-KA2MP) between 2011-2014.

Educational management experience

2019-2024: Coordinator of the Adjunt Professors of English at the Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italia.

2019-2024: Coordinator of the English Placement at the Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italia.

Research

RESEARCH GROUPS

  • TRADIT, Didactic audiovisual translation Main research areas: Audiovisual Translation; Media Accessibility; Language Learning Current funding sources: TRADILEX project: PID2019-107362GA-I00 +info  
  • ARENA, Accesibilidad, tRaducción audiovisual y aprEndizaje de leNguAs Grupo de Innovación Docente (GID) de la UNED.  Objetivos: (1) Comprobar la viabilidad de incluir una metodología que integre la traducción audiovisual como recurso didáctico en las asignaturas relativas al aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras, para mejorar el nivel de competencia comunicativa, especialmente en lo que respecta a su vertiente oral. (2) Evaluar la posibilidad de promoción de la accesibilidad audiovisual a través de subtitulación social en el marco de la universidad a largo plazo. (3) Conseguir un mayor nivel de conocimiento y utilización eficiente de la lengua inglesa en nuestra sociedad que influya de modo directo en la generación de conocimiento y pueda contribuir a incrementar el liderazgo científico del país.  

RESEARCH PROJECTS

  • TRADILEX (AUDIOVISUAL TRANSLATION AS A DIDACTIC RESOURCE IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION) The main goal of TRADILEX is to determine the degree of improvement in the L2 learning process after including the pedagogical use of AVT as a didactic tool. +info
  • TRADISUB (subtitulado para sordos interlingüístico para mejorar destrezas de expresión escrita y de traducción general) El proyecto TRADISUB es un estudio de investigación llevado a cabo en la UNED que utiliza el subtitulado como recurso didáctico para enseñar el idioma inglés a estudiantes y para desarrollar sus competencias lingüísticas de forma integrada. Más información aquí.

Publications

  • PUBLICATIONS IN JOURNALS Lertola, J. (2024). Revoicing Science: Exploring Didactic Voice-Over With English for Specific Purposes Among Postgraduate Students of Biology. Journal of Audiovisual Translation,7(1), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.47476/jat.v7i1.2024.303  

    Tinedo Rodríguez, A. J. y J. Lertola (2024). Training pre-service Primary Education teachers in didactic audiovisual translation (DAT): A case study. Parallèles, 36 (1) 199-216. https://doi.org/10.17462/para.2024.01.12

    Lertola J., y N. Talaván (2022). Didactic audiovisual translation in teacher training. Revista de lenguas para fines específicos, 28(2), 133-150. https://doi.org/10.20420/rlfe.2022.555

    Talaván, N., y J. Lertola (2022). Audiovisual translation as a didactic resource in foreign language education. A methodological proposal. Encuentro Journal, 30, 23-39. https://www3.uah.es/encuentrojournal/index.php/encuentro/article/view/66

    Talaván, N., Lertola, J., y A. Ibáñez (2022). Audio description and subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing. Media accessibility in foreign language learning. Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts, 8(1), 1-29. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1075/ttmc.00082.tal 

    Lertola, J. (2021). Free commentary to enhance writing and speaking skills in EFL teacher training. ESP Across Cultures, 18, 125-140. https://dx.doi.org/10.4475/0062_7

    Lertola, J. (2021). Towards the integration of audiovisual translation in the teaching of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in higher education. Bulletin suisse de linguistique appliquée, 114, 151-168.

    Lertola, J. (2019). Second language vocabulary learning through subtitling. Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics, 32(2), 486-514. https://benjamins.com/catalog/resla.17009.ler

    Lertola, J. (2018). From translation to audiovisual translation in foreign language learning. TRANS: revista de traductología, 22, 185-202. https://www.revistas.uma.es/index.php/trans/article/download/3217/5104

    Lertola, J. y C. Mariotti (2017). Reverse dubbing and subtitling: Raising pragmatic awareness in Italian ESL learners. JoSTrans-The Journal of Specialised Translation, 28, 103-121. https://www.jostrans.org/issue28/art_lertola.pdf

    Talaván, N., Lertola, J. y T. Costal (2016). iCap: Intralingual captioning for writing and vocabulary enhancement. Revista Alicantina de estudios Ingleses, 29, 229-248. https://rua.ua.es/dspace/handle/10045/68015

    Talaván, N., y J. Lertola (2016). Active Audiodescription to promote speaking skills in online environments. Sintagma 28, 59-74. https://www.sintagma.udl.cat/export/sites/Sintagma/documents/articles_28/Talavan-N..pdf

    Borghetti, C. y J. Lertola (2014). Interlingual subtitling for intercultural language education: A case study. Language and Intercultural Communication, 14(4), 423-440. https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2014.934380

    Incalcaterra McLoughlin, L. y J. Lertola (2014). Audiovisual translation in second language Acquisition: Integrating subtitling in the foreign language curriculum. Special Issue of The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 8(1), 70-83. https://doi.org/10.1080/1750399X.2014.908558
  • PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS AND CHAPTERS OF BOOKS) Books

    Talaván, N., Lertola, J. & A. Fernández-Costales (2024). Didactic audiovisual translation and foreign language education. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Didactic-Audiovisual-Translation-and-Foreign-Language-Education/Talavan-Lertola-Fernandez-Costales/p/book/9781032277585

    Lertola, J. (2019). Audiovisual translation in the foreign language classroom: Applications in English and other foreign languages. Research-publishing.net. https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2019.27.9782490057252

     

    Edited books

    Incalcaterra McLoughlin, L., Lertola, J. & N. Talaván (2020). Audiovisual translation in applied Linguistics: Educational perspectives. John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.111

     

    Chapter of books

    Lertola, J., & A. J. Tinedo Rodríguez (in press). Preliminary Results of the Combination of Didactic Audiovisual Translation (DAT) and Translation for Tourism to Foster English for Specific Purposes (ESP) Learning. In L. M. Martínez Serrano (Ed.), Languages and Cultures of the Mind: Mapping New Terrain in Plurilingual Education. Peter Lang.

    Lertola, J., & A. J. Tinedo Rodríguez (in press). Preliminary Results of the Combination of Didactic Audiovisual Translation (DAT) and Translation for Tourism to Foster English for Specific Purposes (ESP) Learning. In L. M. Martínez Serrano (Ed.), The Power of Language and Culture. Peter Lang.

    Nicora, F., & Lertola, J. (2025). First insights into keyword subtitling and free commentary tasks to enhance children's second language vocabulary acquisition. In C. Plaza-Lara, M. del Mar Ogea-Pozo, & C. Botella-Tejera (Eds.), Empirical studies in didactic audiovisual translation (pp. 173–191). Routledge.

    Incalcaterra McLoughlin, L., Lertola, J. y N. Talaván (2020). Audiovisual translation in language education: An introduction. En Incalcaterra McLoughlin, L., Lertola, J. y N. Talaván (Eds.), Audiovisual translation in applied linguistics: Educational perspectives. John Benjamins. (pp. 1-8).  https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.111.ttmc.00001.edi

    Lertola, J. (2016). La sottotitolazione per apprendenti di italiano L2. En A. Valentini (Ed.), L’input per l’acquisizione di L2: strutturazione, percezione, elaborazione. (pp. 153-162). Franco Cesati Editore.

    Incalcaterra McLoughlin, L. & J. Lertola (2016). La traduzione audiovisiva e consapevolezza pragmatica nella classe d’italiano avanzata. In D. Troncarelli (Ed.), Orientarsi in rete. (pp. 244-264). Becarelli editore.

    Incalcaterra McLoughlin, L. & J. Lertola (2015). Captioning and revoicing of clips in foreign language Learning: Using Clipflair for teaching Italian in online learning environment. In C. Ramsey Portolano (Ed.), The Future of Italian Teaching: Media, Social Networks, New Technologies and Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives (pp. 54-69). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

    Lertola, J. (2015). Subtitling in Language Teaching: Suggestions for Language Teachers. In Y Gambier, A. Caimi & C. Mariotti (Eds.), Subtitles and Language Learning (pp. 245-267). Peter Lang.

    Lertola, J. (2012). The effect of the subtitling task on vocabulary learning. In A. Pym & D. Orrego-Carmona (Eds.), Translation Research Project 4 (pp. 61-70). Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

    Incalcaterra McLoughlin, L. & J. Lertola (2011). Learn through subtitling: Subtitling as an aid to language learning. In L. Incalcaterra McLoughlin, M. Biscio & M. A. Ní Mhainnín (Eds.), Audiovisual Translation. Subtitles and Subtitling (pp. 243-263). Peter Lang.

    Lertola, J. (2010). “Come insegnare italiano agli studenti universitari? Un’esperienza con i sottotitoli”. In P. Diadori (Ed.), La DITALS risponde 7 (pp. 69-78). Guerra.