Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
Summary
This edited collection of theoretical papers, readings and students' projects entitled Developing Intercultural Competence through English: Focus on Ukrainian and Polish Cultures, in short DICE, is the outcome of a joint innovative project of two English University Departments: the English Philology Department of the Jagiellonian University (JU) in Kraków, Poland, and the English Philology Department of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (VSPNU) in Ivano-Frankivsk (formerly Stanislav, Stanislavov), Ukraine. The intended readers of the book are teachers and students of English, as well as anyone interested in intercultural competence and ways of developing it, in particular readers interested in the Ukrainian and Polish cultures.
The project aims at improving communicative competence in English as an international language and raising intercultural awareness among Ukrainian and Polish students of English. Our goal is to enable students of English in our countries, the population of which has greatly expanded since English has been recognized by educational authorities as a European lingua franca, to familiarize themselves with each other, with some aspects of our cultures, as well as with some contemporary social problems in our countries.
We also expect that our project and this volume as its outcome would be of interest to all those readers in other countries who because of their origin, field of studies or acquired taste would like to learn more about Ukrainian and Polish cultures.
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- Developing Intercultural Competence through EnglishFocus on Ukrainian and Polish Cultures, pp. 7 - 12Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2011