USING THE AUDIOVISUAL TRANSLATION MINI-PROJECT FOR ADVERTISEMENT VIDEOS TO IMPROVE TRANSLATION SKILLS FOR SECOND-YEAR ENGLISH MAJORS AT THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION

Abstract

This study aimed to find out whether using Audiovisual Translation (AVT) of advertisement videos had effectiveness on improving translation skills for English majors at Thai Nguyen University of Education. There were 20 second-year English majors attending in the AVT mini-project. They had to do pre-test and post-test in order to examine if there was any improvement in their performance in their translation skill between the tests and answer an questionnaire for more details about their attitudes towards this method. The results from the pre-test and post-test have approved that there was a significant enhancement of the students’ performance in translation skill after using AVT of advertisement videos. The figure from the questionnaire indicated that using AVT of advertisement videos helped the students gain more vocabulary, reduce their grammatical mistakes while writing English sentences and be more confident in translation than before.