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The purpose of this study is the development of IT-consulting in the system of foreign economic activity of the Black Sea region. The relevance of this study is due to the need to address the development of consulting services in the system of foreign economic activity of the agro-industrial complex in the region. It is established that today many companies are interested in reducing the risks associated with running their own business. This has led to a rapid growth of consulting companies. The most popular are IT consulting services, market research, financial consulting and auditing with the largest market share, while environmental consulting is only gaining momentum. Institutional priorities of IT-consulting services in the system of foreign economic development of agro-food production of the region are established. The mechanism of development of the system of regional IT-consulting for stimulation of foreign economic activity of agro-food sphere is offered. The basic elements of development and functioning of the international infrastructure of regulation and self-regulation of IT-consulting services are investigated. It is determined that in the long run the services will be developed on the basis of innovative concepts and management tools to ensure the strategic competitiveness of customers. The consumers served are metallurgy, energy, construction, telecommunications, chemical industry, food industry, trade and distribution, media companies and the financial sector. In general, the consulting industry in Ukraine has some space, and domestic consulting companies also have a significant share of reserves in the market of consulting services. The estimated value of exports of the Black Sea region according to the models in 2022 is projected at the level of 2989.242 million dollars, and in 2023 - at the level of 3146.893 million dollars. It is proved that for further intensification of foreign economic activity of enterprises two main problems should be solved: to overcome excessive dependence on export of plant products (and other products with low added value) and to intensify export capacities of Kherson region.

To date, with the everyday growth of technology and the increase of online classes, busy modern teachers seek to lighten their burdens and boost their learners’ autonomy. Thus, this multi-method action research aimed to probe the differences between receiving computer-generated and direct corrective feedback (CF) on the syntactic accuracy and complexity of female adolescent Iranian EFL learners’ writing. Two intact classes took part in the study; one group (Group C) received CF from an AWE (Automated Writing Evaluation) tool, called Ginger software, and the other group (Group T) received CF from their teacher. Subject-verb agreement and verb form errors were considered to measure the syntactic accuracy while the average sentence length and verb form variation were regarded as the syntactic complexity. Moreover, via a questionnaire, the students’ perceptions of the kind of CF they had received were taken into account to see which one was more effective. Findings obtained from MANOVA revealed that both groups made significant improvements regarding syntactic accuracy. Group C produced more complex outputs after being exposed to the treatment while Group T didn’t make such progress. The results obtained from the questionnaire also indicated that both groups found the CF satisfactory. However, Group C held more positive attitudes. Not only was the Ginger application effective in decreasing the number of students’ writing errors but also it motivated them to be better writers and write more. The study further points to the likely merits of technology-enhanced feedback in improving EFL learners' writing ability in general, and their written syntactic accuracy/complexity in particular.