The Effective Action of Theatre in the Educational Mapping of Linguistic and Intercultural Mediators

Authors

  • María Isabel Fernández García
  • Mercedes Ariza
  • Claudio Bendazzoli
  • Maria Giovanna Biscu
  • Yvonne Grimaldi

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https://doi.org/10.33178/scenario.6.2.8

Abstract

This paper is based on the University Theatre experience at the Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators (SSLMIT) of the University of Bologna (Forlì campus) over the last twenty years. A great number of trainee translators and interpreters has had the opportunity to explore the world of theatre in a foreign language, which can be referred to as TiLLiT (i.e. theatre in language and language in theatre) or stage-classroom. This activity has been carried out within a comprehensive educational context, enabling participants to acquire both general and specific competences, as suggested in the European Higher Education Area. Evidence of this can be found in the final dissertations that some students-actors wrote to complete their curriculum. Four dissertations in total will be considered to illustrate the effective action of theatre, which enables its main protagonists to establish a direct link between theoretical notions and experience.

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