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Preface
Thiseditedcollectionoftheoreticalpapers,readingsandstudents'projectsentitled
DevelopingInterculturalCompetencethroughEnglish:FocusonUkrainianand
PolishCultures,inshortDICE,istheoutcomeofajointinnovativeprojectoftwo
EnglishUniversityDepartments:theEnglishPhilologyDepartmentoftheJagiel-
lonianUniversity(JU)inKraków,Poland,andtheEnglishPhilologyDepartment
ofVasylStefanykPrecarpathianNationalUniversity(VSPNU)inIvano-Frankivsk
(formerlyStanislav,Stanislavov),Ukraine.Theintendedreadersofthebookare
teachersandstudentsofEnglish,aswellasanyoneinterestedininterculturalcom-
petenceandwaysofdevelopingit,inparticularreadersinterestedintheUkrainian
andPolishcultures.
TheprojectaimsatimprovingcommunicativecompetenceinEnglishasan
internationallanguageandraisinginterculturalawarenessamongUkrainianand
PolishstudentsofEnglish.OurgoalistoenablestudentsofEnglishinourcountries,
thepopulationofwhichhasgreatlyexpandedsinceEnglishhasbeenrecognizedby
educationalauthoritiesasaEuropeanlinguafranca,tofamiliarizethemselveswith
eachother,withsomeaspectsofourcultures,aswellaswithsomecontemporary
socialproblemsinourcountries.
Wealsoexpectthatourprojectandthisvolumeasitsoutcomewouldbeof
interesttoallthosereadersinothercountrieswhobecauseoftheirorigin,field
ofstudiesoracquiredtastewouldliketolearnmoreaboutUkrainianandPolish
cultures.Whatmaybeinterestingtothoseintendedreadersincountriesotherthan
PolandandUkrainearedifferentapproachestoaspectsofcultureinUkraineand
inPoland.
TheprojectstartedoutofPolishinitiativein2009andwasreadilytakenup
bytheUkrainianpartners.StaffmembersoftheEnglishPhilologyDepartment
ofVSPNUagreedtowriteandcompileacollectionoftextsinEnglishwith
accompanyinginterculturaltasks.SincestaffmembersoftheEnglishPhilology
DepartmentofJUwerelesswillingtowriteandselecttexts,agroupofJagiellonian
Universitygraduatestudentswereencouragedtoconductinterculturalprojectsin
cooperationwithMAstudentsfromtheEnglishPhilologyDepartmentofVSPNU.
DICEisaninnovativeprojectinatleasttwoways.First,itisanintercultural
PolishandUkrainianprojectbutthelanguageitiswritteninisEnglish.Webelieve
thatthemediumofEnglishasalanguageofinternationalcommunicationwillmake
ourstudentsperceivetheirownandtheirneighbours'culturesinanintercultural
perspectiveand,asaresult,willcontributetoraisingtheirinterculturalawareness
andtolerance.Allofus,exceptsomeofourinternationalstudents,areusersof