Members of the research group
Project Leader: Dr. Péter Medgyes
Although a professor emeritus of ELTE since 2013, Dr. Péter Medgyes actively leads courses for MA and PhD students. His main courses include the introduction of applied linguistics and language pedagogy, the methodology of language teaching, the development of language competences, curriculum theory, and what factors make for successful university and conference lectures. His main research areas are the examination of differences between English native and non-native language teachers, humor research, and the comprehensive analysis of applied linguistic and language pedagogy research conducted in Hungary. The author of more than two hundred professional volumes and articles, Dr. Péter Medgyes is known throughout the world for his conference lectures.
Research team members
Dr. Éva Márkus
Habilitated associate professor; her areas of researc include German minority education, dialects in education, usage of minority children’s literature in early language development, story-based pedagogy, and experience-based instruction in folklore. Language sciences, dialectology.
Dr. Valéria Árva
Associate professor, department chair, instructor of English. Her research areas include early language development, English-language children’s literature, using English-language stories to develop language, English professional language for early childhood caretakers. Her publications and conference lectures span these research areas.
Dr. Éva Benkő Trentinné
Associate professor; her areas of research include education and language pedagogy, teacher training, the examination of teachers’ beliefs and learning results, English subject methodology and children’s literature, bilingualism in education (CLIL: content-based language instruction). Teacher for grades 1-8, mentoring, expert in public and tertiary education, trainer of teaching methodology, developer of course materials, curricula, courses, pedagogical evaluation, experienced author of textbooks for both primary school and university.
Dr. Gizella Baloghné Nagy
Senior lecturer, instructor of specialization for German and minority education (grammar, literature, minority children’s literature, bilingualism, methodology, teaching practice). Her research areas include linguistics, syntax and the experience- and play-based instruction of a foreign language.
Dr. Andrea Fenyődi
Egyetemi tanársegéd, okleveles nyelvtanár, tanító, közoktatási gyakorlattal. Szakmai terület: szakmódszertani anyagok, szakkönyvek és képzések fejlesztése (általános tanító, nyelvtanítás, etikatanítás), kerettantervfejlesztés. Kutatási terület: pedagóguskutatás, pedagógusképzés, nézetek, tanulási és tanítási stratégiák, módszertan.
Dorothee Lehr-Balló
Native speaker of German, copyeditor. Instructor of specialization for German and minority education. Her research interests are the methodology and practice of early childhood language instruction. She organises and leads the practice for preschool students attending the minority education programme. She regularly holds methodology trainings both in-person and online (ELTE-TÓK Goethe Institute, Catholic Pedagogical Institute). She copyedits the German-language publications of the Faculty.
Dr. Maya Jean Lo Bello
Native speaker of English, senior lecturer with research interests in Hungarian literary history, the history of literary criticism, the modern literary journal Nyugat, periodical studies, literature research, cultural studies. She is chief editor of Hungarian Studies Review and also translates and copyedits.
Réka Miskei-Szabó
Assistant lecturer who researches language attitudes, methodology of early childhood language instruction (ICT tools, folklore, children’s literature). She holds lectures and workshops organised by ELTE TÓK.
Dr. Andrea Poros
Senior lecturer whose research includes Scandinavian women’s literature from the nineteenth century, the pedagogical and literary work of Ellen Key, the female authors of the Modern Breakthrough literary movement, the history of education, Ida Tabódy and the history of the Royal State Teachers’ College of Pozsony, English bilingual education, English children’s and young adult literature, early childhood language instruction, story-based pedagogy.
Teréz Radvai
Master instructor; research areas are language pedagogy, bilingual education, early childhood language development, utilising minority children’s literature in early childhood language development. Within these fields she has published articles both nationally and internationally, authored university textbooks and held conference lectures.
Bernadett Svraka
Assistant lecturer and instructor at the Department of Education, ELTE TÓK; instructor for the MTA ELTE Psychomotor Development Research Group. Originally trained as a primary teacher, special educator, degree in the humanities. As a researcher and instructor of evaluation she has also completed professional training in Manager of Research and Innovation. She supports projects in empirical research.