Pilar Couto-Cantero- Ph D
- Professor (Full) at Universidade da Coruña
Pilar Couto-Cantero
- Ph D
- Professor (Full) at Universidade da Coruña
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Introduction
Pilar Couto-Cantero is full professor at the F. of Education, Head of Dept. and Principal Researcher in the DILEC research group at UDC. She holds two Graduates, two Masters and a PH. D. in Spanish Philology. PhD Examiner and Supervisor. Head of a Postdoct Programme. Editor-in-chief of the International Journal Digilec. Research fields: Applied Linguistics, Bilingual Education, Language Teaching, CLIL and she has developed the Textual Transpodidactics Model for teaching and learning languages.
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September 2002 - present
Position
- Senior Lecturer
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- Head of Department. Modern Languages Coordinator.
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Introduction: Considering a fact that music and a given language are different manifestations of language and that both take sound as their basic constitutional element, to highlight the existing research gap in this area and to reinforce the conception of music as a language is intended. Moreover, given the benefits that many authors state regardi...
The InnoDAT project is framed within the TRADILEX Project, which is aimed at demonstrating the applicability of Audiovisual Translation (AVT) for teaching and learning languages. TRADILEX is an ongoing project presented at a state-funded competitive call and supported by the Spanish Government. This article is aimed at presenting InnoDAT, an innova...
La elaboración de este artículo de investigación se enmarca dentro del ámbito de la enseñanza y aprendizaje de lenguas y culturas en contextos educativos, desde una perspectiva global e integradora. El objetivo principal de este estudio consiste en demostrar que el modelo teórico-práctico de la transpodidáctica textual resulta efectivo para desarro...
The main objective of this case study is to find out how activities and tasks are implemented within subjects taught through the CLIL approach and the use of trans-languaging in relation to learning curricular contents and a foreign language (English) in a plurilingual Primary Education School selected for this purpose. To meet these objectives, a...
This article is framed within a research project based in Spain aimed at studying the use of Audiovisual Translation tools to develop communicative competences for teaching and learning English as a Foreign Language. The aims of the study are to get to know to what extent the oral and written production skills of the participants improve thanks to...
This chapter explores the use of the English Corner as a valuable catalyst to promote oral skills and language learning in plurilingual contexts at primary school level. The sample took place in two state-funded schools located in A Coruña (North-Western Spain) with 288 students aged from 8 to 12 years. This study aims at answering the following re...
This chapter explores the use of the English Corner as a valuable catalyst to promote oral skills and language learning in plurilingual contexts at Primary School level. The sample took place in two State-funded schools located in A Coruña (North-Western Spain) with 288 students aged from 8 to 12 years. This study aims at answering the following Re...
Este estudio abarca el aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras. Los objetivos consisten en: 1. Averiguar si el número de lenguas extranjeras que dominan los encuestados influye en lo que ellos creen sobre el grado de dificultad de aprendizaje de las LEs en Educación Primaria, 2. Conocer la creencia de los participantes con respecto a si la dificultad de...
La Dra. Pilar Couto-Cantero de la Universidad de A Coruña se centra en el análisis de algunos elementos que plantean problemas en algunas traducciones de la primera parte de la obra El Lazarillo de Tormes. Para realizar el análisis comparativo se ha elegido el texto en lengua española de la reciente edición bilingüe (castellano-gallego) revisada po...
Intercultural Education is a key feature in the development of inclusion strategies aimed at ethnically diverse students. Transformative approaches towards learning such as Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) are essential in order to answer the educative needs that arise due to the coexistence between ethnic minorities and mainstream society. The...
These are the preliminary details of the creation of an ITIS (Initial Test of Integrated Skills) within the TRADILEX Project, aimed at creating a platform for learning English through AV translation.
These are the preliminary details of the creation of an ITIS (Initial Test of Integrated Skills) within the TRADILEX Project, aimed at creating a platform for learning English through AV translation.
These are the preliminary details of the creation of an ITIS (Initial Test
of Integrated Skills) within the TRADILEX Project, aimed at creating a
platform for learning English through AV translation.
This article shows the preliminary design process for a tailor-made Initial Test of Integrated Skills (ITIS) specially adapted to the needs of TRADILEX, a project (2020-2023) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities to study the scope and validity of using audiovisual translation (AVT) tools to develop communicative co...
This proposal has been developed based on the theoretical-practical model of Textual Transpodidactics for a third level of Primary Education. In the introduction, the objectives are detailed and what this model consists of, in which an initial literary fiction text is transformed into a final one. Next, the method is detailed with the necessary pha...
This paper focuses on the analysis of some linguistic elements that pose problems in the English translation of the famous novel: El Lazarillo de Tormes. To carry out the analysis we have chosen the Spanish version of the bilingual edition (Spanish-Galician) recently reviewed by Rodríguez López-Vázquez in 2019 as initial text. The three English ver...
Learning English as a Foreign Language has become a key objective to be achieved over the last years. In Primary Education schools in Spain, they are many the teachers who direct their efforts to this issue. From Galicia, a dynamic, entertaining and inclusive educative response in the English classroom has been proposed. The experience has been bas...
Several examples of traditional English songs known as Nursery Rhymes are presented in this article. They will be used as a didactic resource for the Teaching and Learning of a Foreign Language. In addition, general aspects related to history, popular culture and society of the time in which these rhymes were produced will be reviewed. In this arti...
The main aim of this paper is to provide novice CLIL teachers with advice on key areas related to the implementation of this approach. This is done through the presentation of ‘ten fundamentals’ with their corresponding literature review, activities and suggestions contextualised within the framework of a defined Teaching and Learning Unit, and a f...
La innovación es ya hoy en día más que un reto, una realidad que se impone en las prácticas docentes de todo aquel profesorado que se precie. Mantiene además una relación directa con la formación permanente y constituye, por lo tanto, una más de las muchas tareas que directa o indirectamente les son asignadas a los docentes del siglo XXI. En este m...
En el artículo que presentamos a continuación se aborda una experiencia de innovación docente dentro del contexto de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación de la UDC. Nuestra propuesta se llevó a cabo entre los cursos académicos 2009-10 a 2015-16 y fue dirigida al alumnado que cursaba la materia de “Didáctica de la Lengua Inglesa” en las Diplomatu...
En el presente capítulo se analizan las políticas lingüísticas para la potenciación de la enseñanza
bilingüe/plurilingüe en España de acuerdo con los objetivos de la construcción de un proyecto
común promovidos por el Consejo de Europa. Se aborda una revisión en todos los niveles
educativos, desde la Educación Infantil, Primaria, Secundaria y Educa...
Las relaciones entre texto literario y texto cinematográfico siempre son complejas e implican una problemática semiótica muy particular. Frente a los estudios tradicionales de la “adaptación cinematográfica”, en términos valorativos y jerárquicos, como si hubiese relaciones de “fidelidad” y/o dependencia entre literatura y cine, es necesario aborda...
This article is centred in the elaboration of a comparative study
between two fictional texts based on the “boogeyman” character as a common
element which surpasses the barriers of time and space turning into the universal
representation of fear. The methodology was based on the Film Transposition
Theory developed in 1999 by one of the co-authors o...
Este artículo se centra en el estudio e interpretación de la figura del «Coco» como un elemento común que forma parte del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de diferentes tradiciones, lenguas y culturas. La metodología de trabajo está basada en la teoría de la transpodidáctica textual desarrollada por la co-autora de este trabajo. En la primera sección...
En este artículo se examina la introducción de la interculturalidad en el aula de Lengua Extranjera en edades tempranas. Con este fin, abordaremos aquellas cuestiones teóricas y metodológicas que, como docentes de Didáctica de la Lengua Extranjera en una Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación en la Universidad de A Coruña, creemos necesarias para la...
This essay discusses the connection between Wenceslao Fernández Flórez and Futurism in the early twentieth century. The first two sections include the state of arts in the context of Galicia, the first manifestations of Futurism in Galicia, and how the local writers responded to this Futurist movement. Sections three and four are focused on examini...
Por primera vez se analiza el cuento: "Casa Tomada" desde perspectivas múltiples pero complementarias. Este capítulo se divide en tres apartados: un análisis narratológico-semiótico del relato breve, un análisis fílmico y comparativo-textual entre el texto de ficción literario y el de ficción fílmico para terminar con una propuesta didáctica dentro...
main aim of this article is to present a new educational theoretical model based in the elaboration and put into practice of a new methodology developed in order to demonstrate the benefits of using fictional texts with educational purposes in the learning languages domain. The transformation from "The emperor's new clothes" fairy tale written by A...
Visión y experiencia propia en torno al papel de las revistas y su contribución a la promoción del conocimiento científico en el área objeto de estudio. Se constata el papel fundamental que las revistas académicas y científicas ejercen en una comunidad científica en cuanto a la transferencia de conocimiento.
Si bien la transferencia de conocimiento...
Este artículo ofrece una propuesta diseñada para verificar los niveles de conocimiento en cuanto a la adquisiciónde lenguas extranjeras en el ámbito de los futuros maestros y profesores de lenguas extranjeras en primaria y secundaria en una comunidad bilingüe como Galicia (España). Uno de los principales objetivos consiste en analizarlo que los est...
Este artículo está dedicado al relato de doña Emilia Pardo Bazán titulado: “Sin pasión” publicado por primera vez en 1909. De acuerdo con la línea estructural del monográfico presentado en este volumen, el relato breve objeto de estudio aborda la temática de la violencia de género. En él se propone un análisis textual planteado desde una doble pers...
En el presente trabajo se expone la historia de la investigación semiótica en Galicia desde sus orígenes, a principios de los años setenta, cuando llega a la Universidad de Santiago la profesora Bobes Naves, quien en 1973 publica La semiótica como teoría lingüística. El primer resultado de la incipiente semiótica literaria gallega va a ser el volum...
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