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Instrumentalising Foreign Language Pedagogy in Translator and Interpreter Training: Methods, goals and perspectives
Edited by Olaf Immanuel Seel, Silvia Roiss and Petra Zimmermann-González
[Benjamins Translation Library 161] 2023
► pp. 40–52

Chapter 3
Foreign language teaching in translator and interpreter training

New linguistic concepts for changing times

| University of Graz, Austria
This chapter explores language education in translation and interpreting (TI) programs through the lens of linguistic multi-competence. In doing so, language learning and teaching in the multilingual foreign language classroom are considered as a multisensory, multimodal, multidirectional, and multidimensional adaptation process and an acculturation process with emphasis on the students’ agency. The purpose of this chapter is to stress the importance of addressing and pedagogically adopting new linguistic concepts such as translanguaging or translinguistics in translator and interpreter training. New developments in the discipline of modern translation studies (TS) which reconfigure and redefine the field by adopting a cross-disciplinary perspective lend themselves well to blending with critical, empowering plurilingual pedagogies in higher education.
Keywords: linguistic multi-competence, positive psychology 2.0, higher education language pedagogy, translator and interpreter training, critical pedagogy
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Contemporary language education and applied linguistics
  • 3.Challenging concepts for an emerging field
    • 3.1Against native-speakerism: A new terminology and a new concept
    • 3.2Multicompetence and multimodality
    • 3.3Translanguaging and translinguistics
    • 3.4Positive psychology and positive language education
  • 4.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 1 June 2023
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