Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-7c8c6479df-94d59 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-03-29T15:18:26.979Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Preface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2014

Anna Niżegorodcew
Affiliation:
Jagiellonian University
Yakiv Bystrov
Affiliation:
Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University
Marcin Kleban
Affiliation:
Jagiellonian University
Get access

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.

Type
Chapter
Information
Developing Intercultural Competence through English
Focus on Ukrainian and Polish Cultures
, pp. 7 - 12
Publisher: Jagiellonian University Press
Print publication year: 2011

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×