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End users and real-life projects in teaching
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Agnieszka Szarkowska
(The Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw, Poland)
BIONOTE: Agnieszka Szarkowska is Associate Professor in the Institute of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw. She is the head of AVT Lab, one of the first research groups on audiovisual translation. Agnieszka is a researcher, university teacher, former translator, translator trainer, and media accessibility consultant. Between 2016 and 2018 she was Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Centre for Translation Studies, University College London, working on the project “Exploring Subtitle Reading with Eye Tracking Technology” funded by the European Commission. Her areas of expertise include audiovisual translation, media accessibility and translator training. She has participated in many research projects, including eye tracking studies on subtitling, audio description in education, text-to-speech audio description, multilingualism in subtitling for the d/Deaf and the hard-of-hearing, respeaking, and modern art
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