Developing Intercultural Competence in Translator Training: Evidence from Didactic Subtitling in French as a Foreign Language

M.^a Azahara Veroz-González

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Developing Intercultural Competence in Translator Training: Evidence from Didactic Subtitling in French as a Foreign Language

Abstract
Didactic Audiovisual Translation (DAT) has emerged as an innovative methodology in foreign language education by integrating audiovisual translation tasks into the learning process and promoting active learner participation. Beyond language development, DAT has also been identified as a valuable tool for fostering intercultural communicative competence (ICC). This study focuses on French as a Foreign Language (FFL), which remains comparatively underexplored as a working language in DAT research (Sanz-Moreno, 2023) and examines students’ perceptions of their ICC development after completing a sequence of didactic subtitling tasks in a Translation and Interpreting Degree programme at the University of Córdoba. A quasi-experimental pretest–intervention–postest design was implemented following Bisquerra (2004). Twenty-four students participated in the intervention, which consisted of six didactic subtitling tasks implemented within the TRADILEX pedagogical framework (Talaván & Lertola, 2022). Students’ perceptions of the procedural, cognitive, and affective dimensions of ICC were measured using the Intercultural Resources Scale (IRS) (González Plasencia, 2020), and the data were analysed using the non-parametric Wilcoxon signed-rank test. The results revealed statistically significant improvements of ICC (p < .05), with significant improvements observed in the cognitive and affective dimensions, while no statistically significant change was found in the procedural dimension. These findings suggest that didactic subtitling can positively contribute to the development of students’ ICC in FFL contexts and highlight its pedagogical potential for translator and interpreter training.

Keywords
Didactic audiovisual translation, didactic subtitling, intercultural communicative competence, French as a foreign language, student perceptions

DOI 10.17462/para.2026.02.05

Ma Azahara Veroz-González

M.^a Azahara Veroz-González

María Azahara Veroz-González is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language Sciences at the University of Córdoba, where she teaches French as a foreign language. She also teaches in the Online Master’s Degree in English Studies (OMIES) at the University of Jaén, where she delivers the course on Translation and ICT. She holds a PhD in Languages and Cultures (2014), with a specialisation in Translation, from the University of Córdoba (Spain), and her research focuses on new technologies applied to translation, specialised translation, and foreign language teaching. Her work has been published in prestigious journals (Meta, Panace@, Delta, etc.) and publishing houses (Peter Lang, Comares, Bloomsbury, Routledge, etc.), and she coordinates UCOTerm, a website funded by the University of Córdoba (Spain) dedicated to resources for scientific and technical translation. She has also participated in the GAMETRAPP and TRADILEX projects, among others, both funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. She was co-editor of Hikma: Translation Journal (UCOPress) until December 2025. She is a member of the LinguaCor HUM-1144 (University of Córdoba) and TRADIT (UNED) research groups.