International graduate students. LxC employs international graduate students as language resource specialists to prepare class assignments in their areas of study. LxC assignments are thus characterized by disciplinary sophistication, linguistic accuracy, and cultural authenticity. We know the LxC idea works, because we have seen its effects. Participating students keep their reading skills fresh, learn new vocabulary, and acquire valuable intercultural knowledge.
Faculty find their courses energized and enriched by the influx of non-English learning materials.
International students acquire new skills and attain new insights into their own areas of specialization as they share their linguistic and cultural skills and knowledge. Environmental studies 101. Five students meet to discuss a Peruvian magazine article about the degradation of the highland ecosystem as a result of coca production. IN addition to their Spanish-English dictionaries, they have before them a glossary of environmental and other technical terms prepared by the LRS, a Colombian graduate student in the Anthropology Department. With the help of the LRS, the group sees that.