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What is LX User

Chapter 15
Handbook of Research on Multilingual and Multicultural Perspectives on Higher Education and Implications for Teaching
LX refers to any language acquired after the age at which one’s first language(s) was/were acquired. The dichotomy ‘L1 user’ versus ‘LX user’ replaces the one of ‘Native speaker’ versus ‘Non-native speaker’. It does not imply any level of proficiency and has no connotation of inferiority.
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The Multilingual Classroom in Translator Education: Students and Teachers as Co-Participants
Eva Seidl (University of Graz, Austria)
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8888-8.ch015
Abstract
This chapter focuses on a specific multilingual and multicultural classroom. It addresses translation and interpreting-oriented language learning and teaching (TILLT) for future translators and interpreters. This particular form of tertiary level language learning and teaching is looked at from the perspective of higher education pedagogy by stressing the value of students' insights, experiences, and perspectives on academic language learning and teaching. The purpose of the chapter is to make a case for engaging students as partners in learning, teaching, and in classroom-based research.
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