American Studies and Language Center opens in Odesa

Embassy of the United States

KYIV - An American Studies and Language Center officially opened on November 14 at Odesa National Mechnikov University. The center is stocked with more than 200 books and materials for English language teachers, including classroom textbooks, a wide variety of resource books and videotapes on language teaching methodology, linguistics, American studies and American literature.

It is one of the few lending centers in Ukraine that offers books and materials that are specifically designed to meet the needs of English language teachers. The center is open to all university and secondary school English language teachers in the Odesa region. Funds for the center came from the English Language Fellow program of the U.S. State Department.

Participating in the opening ceremony were Patricia Sullivan, the U.S. Embassy's regional English language officer, and Iryna Kolegaeva, chair of the English Stylistics/Lexicology Department. Ms. Sullivan thanked the university for supporting English language teachers in the Odesa region and also expressed gratitude to the senior English language fellow in Odesa, Kitty Johnson, who worked with Ms. Kolegaeva to find and prepare the site for the center and supply it.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, November 24, 2002, No. 47, Vol. LXX

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