Language matters – student engagement in the

internationalised classroom

Gateshead

Dr Catriona Cunningham 15 January 2015

• Translate your university’s mission

statement into another language. If you are

monolingual, translate it into an image or a

poem or even another type of English

• Read it to the person next to you

• Then in pairs ‘think aloud’

Mission statement

The gap of the ‘entre-deux’ here should

be conceived of less as a space, a reified

entity tending towards stasis than as a

constant movement backwards and

forwards in which there is no fixed

identification with either of the poles. The

continuous oscillation between source

text and target text, between home

culture and foreign culture, native

language and foreign language, define

both translator and traveller as figures in

motion” (Cronin, 2000, p. 106, my

emphasis)

Figures not in

motion?

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