
Dr Maria del Mar Parra-Olmedo
Teaching Fellow
Spanish
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Prize And Awards
- Bursary Award for postgraduate students ACIS Annual Conference
- Recipient
- 9/2009
- Bursary Award John Anderson
- Recipient
- 2008
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Publications
- Developing fluencies : digital literacy skills through translation
- Roberts Kerry, Parra-Olmedo Mar
- Jornada de Español - Spanish Day (2024)
- Decoloniality in the Spanish curriculum at Strathclyde
- Parra-Olmedo Mar, Sabala Vanesa
- (2022)
- Lost in Translation? : Satire in The Office
- Parra-Olmedo Mar
- Words & Things Essays in Memory of Keith Foley (2009) (2009)
- Subtitling Satire : The Office
- Parra-Olmedo Mar
- (2007)
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Teaching
- Coordinator and class tutor for Introduction to Spanish 1A and Introduction to Spanish 1B.
- Coordinator for Spanish 1A and Spanish 1B of the Certificate of Continuing Education (CCED).
- Class tutor for Spanish language classes in Years 2 and 3.
- Supervisor for Honours Dissertations in Spanish.
- Class tutor for Honours class R4411- Translation Studies: Key Debates and Theories.
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Research Interests
- The reception of translation, particularly with respect to the audience reception of audiovisual translated humour such as satire and irony.
- The integration of translation technologies (e.g., generative AI, machine translation, etc.) into language learning and translator training, including their implications on ethical issues such as academic integrity.
- The development of speaking skills in second-language learning through the application of communicative approaches that integrate language accuracy, communicative competence and the role metacognition in spoken discourse.
Professional Activities
- Gen AI and Translation: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
- Speaker
- 11/9/2024
- Jornada de Español - Spanish Day
- Speaker
- 8/6/2024
- What is Translation?
- Speaker
- 13/9/2023
- Humanities (Organisational unit)
- Member
- 2023
- HaSS Anti-Racism Committee (Event)
- Member
- 2022
- 1st Year Languages Induction Session (Welcome and Development Week)
- Organiser
- 2019
Projects
- The use of Machine Translation tools vs. Dictionaries in language learning at Secondary Education.
- Parra-Olmedo, Maria Del Mar (Principal Investigator)
- 08-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2025
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Contact
Dr
Maria del Mar
Parra-Olmedo
Teaching Fellow
Spanish
Email: mar.parra@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 8236