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9. Most exercises and activities are aimed at promoting both improvement
of English language skills, and enhancement of cultural understanding.
10. The series provides motivating activities, personalized self-reflection
tasks, some forms of co-operative learning.
11. It enables learners to use English naturally and to develop fluency as
well as accuracy.
12. Extensive topic-related vocabulary is provided and recycled.
13. Placing special emphasis on enhancing reading and speaking skills, the
series provides ample material for developing translation and
interpreting skills.
14. The materials have been pilot-tested at several sites that provided
suggestions for revisions.
15. The materials have been reviewed and proofread by native speakers.

SERIES ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Developing a textbook series is a team effort. We would like to
acknowledge all the individuals and institutions that have helped us at
various stages with this project. The authors are indebted to many
international and Ukrainian EFL methodologists, TEFL resource materials
specialists and their colleagues whose ideas, activities, seminars, and
workshops contributed to the series.
We are grateful to our colleagues from the Ivano-Frankivsk National
Technical University of Oil and Gas (the Department of Foreign Languages and
Department of Document and Information Studies), Precarpathian University
(the English Department) and International Open University of Human
Development (the Department of Translation) for piloting the early drafts and
providing feedback.
We would also like to acknowledge the reviewers whose comments
helped immensely in developing the series.
We would like to thank our students of the Department of Document
and Information Studies who were the testing ground for most of the
material and who helped type the text.
We are grateful to the sponsors of the series for their generosity and
understanding.

Halyna Malyk,
Series Coordinator

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holders before publication, this has not always been possible. If notified, the
publisher will be pleased to rectify any errors at the earliest opportunity.