Contact Information:

e-mail: szabo.eva@tok.elte.hu

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The Department’s Main Professional Activities

Teaching activities:

The Department of Foreign Languages and Literature was established in 1989 and comprises three sections: English, German and Serbian. The main educational programmes are: specialisations in primary English and German language teaching and bilingual preschool education. Special programmes are dedicated to training primary teachers and preschool educators for education in German and Serbian minority schools and preschools. Other courses include special language courses in English and German for early childhood education students. The department played a key role in establishing and maintaining the Faculty’s first English-language BA programme in pre-school education. Hungarian as a Foreign Language and Studies in Romani Language and Culture have been recently added to our range of courses on offer.

As a reflection of the Faculty’s commitment to supporting and maintaining the identities and language of Hungary’s national minority groups, our Department offers BA programmes for primary and kindergarten education in German and Serbian as minority languages, as well as classes in Romani.

The Department of Foreign Languages and Literature has also played a key role in establishing and maintaining the Faculty’s first, English-language BA programme for future pre-school educators.

Courses are offered in the following fields:

• General Language Development in English, German and Serbian
• Methodology of Primary Foreign Language Teaching,
• Cultural studies and civilisation
• Grammar
• Phonetics and Pronunciation
• Studies in bilingualism: Theory and Practice of Bilingualism
• Courses in the fields of German as a minority language:
• CLIL courses (music, P.E., arts and science) for bilingual primary and preschool education
• English, German and Serbian Literature
• English, German and Serbian Children’s Literature
• Foreign Language (English/German for Special Purposes) in Infant and Early Childhood Education.
• School/Kindergarten Practice
• Hungarian as a Foreign Language.
• Romani Language and Culture

In addition, we offer general language development courses and optional courses in various topics, such as cultural studies, literature, etc.

English:

German:

The Serbian section offers courses based on the same framework as our programme for minority language education. Studies in Serbian culture include day-trips to important centres of Serbian culture located in Hungary.

Research activities:

• Bilingual studies, bilingualism in early childhood, CLIL teaching methods
• English as a Foreign Language, English grammar, English literature (adult, young adult and children’s), methodology
• German as a Foreign Language, German as a minority language, German-Hungarian bilingual education, German children’s literature, German grammar, methodology
• Serbian as a Foreign Language, Serbian as a minority language, Serbian culture and literature, methodology
• Hungarian as a Foreign Language
• Teachers’ beliefs and mentalities, moral reasoning in childhood
• English/German for Infant and Early Childhood Care
• Digital story creation for inclusion
• Applying digital methods in post-covid primary education

International Research and Development Projects:

Our Department’s mission is to maintain professional contact with universities throughout the world. As a part of various international mobility programmes, we often host professors, instructors and students from the following institutions:

• Pädagogische Hochschule Oberösterreich /Linz/
• Pädagogische Hochschule Steiermark /Graz/
• Pädagogische Hochschule Wien
• Pädagogische Hochschule Tirol /Innsbruck/
• Technische Universität Dortmund
• Evangelische Hochschule Dresden
• Evangelische Hochschule Freiburg
• Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg
• Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg
• Pädagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg
• Pädagogische Hochschule Schwäbisch Gmünd
• Universität Augsburg
• Katholische Stiftungshochschule München
• Europa-Universität Flensburg
• VIA University College
• Queen's University Belfast
• Stranmillis University College
• Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow
• Libera Universitá di Bolzano
• Universitat de Vic
• Universidad de Oviedo
• Facultad Padre Ossó
• Université de Fribourg
• Pädagogische Hochschule FHNW
• Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich
• Basque Country University, Bilbao
• Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
   

International Projects:

• Writing for Inclusion, Universitat de Vic, Spain KA2O1 Strategic Partnership for School Education: proposal submitted, result expected in July 2O2O

BLENDED MOBILITY PROGRAMME (BIP)

• Partners in Mobility, Europa Universität, Flensburg, Germany A two-year project aiming at increasing student mobility in teacher education. Participants from ELTE TÓK, University College Syd Denmark, Linköpings Universitet and the University of Jyväskylä
• Erasmus + KA International Credit Mobility Project between ELTE TÓK and International Black Sea University, Tbilisi, Georgia Proposal submitted, result expected in July 2O2O
• Erasmus + International Credit Mobility Project between ELTE TÓK and Sultan Idris Education University, Malaysia 2019/2020 (extended to 2021)

Additional activities:

• Active participation in the formation of the training in accordance with the Bologna process
• Active participation in national and international application programmes; Erasmus, Comenius programmes
• Leonardo da Vinci programme (CLILCOM 2004-2006: The development of quality assurance; PLAYTEC: Students ‘teaching practice mobility)
• Active participation in national programmes: development and research projects in connection with nationality education and training
• Active participation in the supervising students’ research activities and academic progress (TDK, OTDK, seminar research papers and presentations for primary teachers’ trainees, BA theses)
• MTA research group in the methodology of digital primary language teaching

Department Events:

• Day of European Languages: “Drop Everything and Learn/Teach Languages”
• Drama Festival
• English/German Translation Competition
• German Advent Crafts Workshops
• English Carol Singing Week
• Christmas Party
• Erasmus Information Afternoon

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