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The impact of language. Collaborating across borders to the design, development and promotion of an Online Palestinian Arabic Course

语言的影响。

基本信息

批准号：
AH/R004617/1
负责人：
Giovanna Fassetta
金额：
$ 12.52万
依托单位：
University of Glasgow
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2017 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FR004617%2F1
关键词：
impact language.Collaborating across borders

项目摘要

The design, development and promotion of an Online Palestinian Arabic Course (OPAC) will significantly extend the impact of the AHRC project 'Researching Multilingually at the Borders of Language, the Body, Law and the State' (RM Borders). The RM Borders Project was funded through the Translating Cultures themes and led by Prof Alison Phipps (University of Glasgow). The OPAC will expand the impact of the Teaching Arabic to Speakers of Other Languages case study (TASOL CS) of the RM Borders Project through the design of an innovative online Arabic course that is sustainable, grounded in Palestinian culture and language and adapted for delivery in challenging contexts.The TASOL CS was a piece of action research to train online teachers of Arabic in the Gaza Strip (Palestine). For the past 10 years, the Gaza Strip has been under Israeli blockade. Because of the blockade, the population of the Strip is in a state of forced immobility, unable to move freely in and out of the Gaza Strip. The blockade has resulted in very high unemployment, especially among young graduates, and in forced cultural and linguistic homogeneity. The aim of the TASOL CS was to create opportunities for multilingual, intercultural and professional collaboration between graduates of the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG) - a partner institution in the RM Borders Project - and a team of foreign language teaching experts based at the University of Glasgow (UoG). It consisted in a 60-hour training course for a group of graduates from IUG, to co-explore effective practices for Arabic language teaching through online tools.The TASOL CS was instrumental in the establishing of the Arabic Center, an offshoot of the RM Borders Project. Housed at IUG, the Arabic Center offers opportunities for online work to the teachers of Arabic that were trained through the TASOL CS. As a practical output of the TASOL CS, the Palestinian teachers have now the opportunity to work online, teaching Arabic learners worldwide. As well as enabling them to gain financially, online work also offers the Palestinian teachers and their international students opportunities to engage in intercultural and multilingual exchanges. The first group of online international learners who were taught by the trained teachers at the Arabic Center expressed high satisfaction in the course they completed. However, they also voiced a need for curricula and resources grounded in Palestinian culture, art, literature and heritage and for engaging with Palestinian Arabic alongside the modern standard variety of the language. The OPAC - to be designed collaboratively with the TASOL trained teachers - will be an innovative language course (36 hours, Beginner level) that meets this need, and which offers a unique leaning experience and a pioneering syllabus for online education in/from a context of crisis. The OPAC will also build on the expertise gained through the design of the successful Multilingual Learning for a Globalised World MOOC, an output of the RM Borders Project, and will contribute to the portfolio of work done under the UNESCO chair on 'Refugee Integration through Language and the Arts' held by Prof Phipps, UoG.The online TASOL course delivered as part of the RM Borders project has already received much attention by academic and non-academic audiences and a presentation on it was one of the few selected for presentation at the UNESCO/UNHCR Mobile Learning Week (Paris, March 2017), which focussed on 'Education in Situations of Emergencies and Crisis'. The design, development and promotion of an innovative, context-specific, multimedia, multimodal online course will expand significantly the impact of the RM Borders project, greatly enhancing its economic social and cultural value by ensuring engagement of new audiences worldwide with the work carried out at the Arabic Center, and by providing a template for effective and sustainable online language teaching in challenging contexts.

设计、开发和推广一个在线的巴勒斯坦阿拉伯语课程(OPAC)将大大扩大AHRC项目“在语言、身体、法律和国家的边界进行多语言研究”(RM Borders)的影响。RM边界项目由翻译文化主题资助，由Alison Phips教授(格拉斯哥大学)领导。OPAC将通过设计一个可持续的、植根于巴勒斯坦文化和语言的创新在线阿拉伯语课程，扩大RM BORDERS项目的阿拉伯语教学案例研究(TASOL CS)的影响。TASOL CS是在加沙地带(巴勒斯坦)培训阿拉伯语在线教师的一项行动研究。过去10年来，加沙地带一直处于以色列的封锁之下。由于封锁，加沙地带人民处于被迫不能行动的状态，无法自由进出加沙地带。封锁造成了非常高的失业率，特别是在年轻毕业生中，并迫使文化和语言同质化。TASOL CS的目的是为加沙伊斯兰大学(IUG)--RM边界项目的合作机构--的毕业生与格拉斯哥大学(UOG)的外语教学专家小组之间的多语言、跨文化和专业合作创造机会。它包括为IUG的一组毕业生举办60小时的培训班，共同探索通过在线工具进行阿拉伯语教学的有效做法。TASOL CS为建立阿拉伯中心发挥了重要作用，该中心是RM边界项目的一个分支。阿拉伯语中心设在IUG，为通过TASOL CS培训的阿拉伯语教师提供在线工作机会。作为TASOL CS的一项实际成果，巴勒斯坦教师现在有机会在网上工作，教授世界各地的阿拉伯语学习者。除了使他们能够获得经济上的收入外，在线工作还为巴勒斯坦教师和他们的国际学生提供了参与跨文化和多语言交流的机会。在阿拉伯语中心接受培训的教师教授的第一批在线国际学习者对他们完成的课程表示高度满意。然而，他们也表示，需要以巴勒斯坦文化、艺术、文学和遗产为基础的课程和资源，以及在现代标准语言的基础上接触巴勒斯坦阿拉伯语。OPAC将与TASOL培训的教师合作设计，将是一门创新的语言课程(36小时，初学者水平)，以满足这一需求，并为危机背景下/从危机中的在线教育提供独特的学习体验和开创性的教学大纲。OPAC还将基于成功的多语言学习为全球化的世界MOOC的设计所获得的专业知识，这是RM边界项目的成果，并将为UG菲普斯教授主持的联合国教科文组织教席“通过语言和艺术融入难民”下完成的工作组合做出贡献。作为RM边界项目的一部分提供的在线TASOL课程已经受到学术和非学术受众的极大关注，关于它的演讲是联合国教科文组织/联合国难民署移动学习周(巴黎，2017年3月)上为数不多的演讲之一，该课程的重点是“紧急和危机情况下的教育”。设计、开发和推广创新的、针对具体情况的、多媒体的、多模式的在线课程，将大大扩大RM Borders项目的影响，通过确保世界各地的新受众参与阿拉伯中心开展的工作，极大地提高其经济、社会和文化价值，并为在具有挑战性的环境中进行有效和可持续的在线语言教学提供一个模板。