Chapter 3. Foreign language teaching in translator and interpreter training

Abstract

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.