Multilingual Online Academic Collaborations as Resistance : : Crossing Impassable Borders / / ed. by Giovanna Fassetta, Nazmi Al-Masri, Alison Phipps.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2
• MitwirkendeR: Abou-Dagga, Sanaa,; Abouda, Ghadeer,; Abu Alyan, Abedrabu,; Al-Masri, Nazmi,; Attia, Mariam,; Fassetta, Giovanna,; Gramling, David,; Grazia Imperiale, Maria,; Guariento, Bill,; Hamouda, Heba,; Motteram, Gary,; Muhaisen, Ahmed S.,; Nakprada, Ongkarn,; Omarali, Shaiffadzillah,; Phipps, Alison,; Rolinska, Anna,; Warner, Chantelle,
• HerausgeberIn: Al-Masri, Nazmi,; Fassetta, Giovanna,; Phipps, Alison,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Researching Multilingually ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

This book details online collaborations between universities in Europe, the USA and Palestine. The chapters recount the challenges and successes of online collaborations which promote academic connections and conversations with the Gaza Strip (Palestine) and forge relationships between individuals,...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Contributors
• Prologue. Collaborating under Siege: A WhatsApp Tale
• Introduction: Can You 'Here' Me? Editors' Reflections on Online Collaborations between the Gaza Strip and the Global North
• Part 1: English as an Additional Language and Online Technologies
• 1 Engineers Operating Multilingually: Reflections on Four Years of Glasgow-Gaza Pre-sessional English Telecollaboration
• 2 Islamic University of Gaza Internationalization Endeavors at the Level of Postgraduate Programs
• 3 Exploring Mobile Support for English Language Teachers in a Context of Conflict: Syrian Refugee Teachers in Jordan
• Part 2: Finding Motivation for Language Learning in a Situation of Forced Immobility
• 4 Motivational Strategies and Online Technologies: Are Palestinian EFL University Students in the Gaza Strip Empowered to be Bilingual?
• 5 'Really Talking' to Gaza: From Active to Transformative Learning in Distributed Environments and under Highly Pressured Conditions
• Part 3: Palestine and the Arabic Language
• 6 Gaza Teaches Arabic Online: Opportunities, Challenges and Ways Forward
• 7 (In)articulability of Pain and Trauma: Idioms of Distress in the Gaza Strip
• Part 4: Making Connections
• 8 The Experience of the Islamic University of Gaza in Cross-border Academic Collaboration: T-MEDA Project as a Case Study
• 9 From the Kitchen to Gaza: Networked Places and the Collaborative Imagination
• Afterword. 'I am Here': Savouring the 'Selfie Moments'
• Index