Laura Incalcaterra McLoughin

Dr Laura Incalcaterra McLoughin, PhD, is a lecturer at the National Unievrsity of Ireland, Galway. She is a lecturer and co-director of the MA in Advanced LanguageSkills and teaches Italian language (including Italian for special purposes) and translation. She has published articles and books on language teaching methodology, language and new technologies and subtitling in language teaching and translators' training. She has presented papers at many international conferences. Among the most recent conferences:

2010:
"Sottotitolazione e didattica della traduzione", Nuovi percorsi in traduzione e interpretazione, Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori, Trieste, Italy, 16-18th June.
"Imparare sottotitolando. La sottotitolazione nella classe di itaiano lingua straniera", AATI Confererence, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy, 26-30th May. Presented with Jennifer Lertola.

2009:
“Use of technologies for linguistic and cultural exchanges in FL class: the www.newitalianliving.com project at NUI Galway”, Cultural Exchanges, Royal Irish Acedemy, Trinity College, Dublin, 13th-14th December.
“Subtitling in translation training. A framework for pedagogical application”, Mediation and Conflict: Translation and Culture in a Global Context. Third Conference of the International Association for translation and Intercultural Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, 7-10th July.

2008:
“Teaching audiovisual translation to raise pragmatic awareness”, Teaching Translation And Interpreting, Department of English and Apllied Linguistics, Łódź University, Łódź, Poland, 4-5th April.