Valeria Arva
Associate Professor
Contact details
Address
1126 Budapest, Kiss János altábornagy u. 40.
Room
125
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6977
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  • 5. Social sciences
    • 5.3 Educational sciences
      • Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics
Early childhood language develpment

The topic of the research is early childhood bilingual education in kindergarten, a longitudinal study. 

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English for Specific Purposes (ESP) for students of early childhood care and infant education

This research focuses on the methodology of teaching English for specific purposes to students of Early Childhood and Infant Education.

English language children's literature - using stories in early childhood language development.

This research focuses on the use of English language stories, fairy tales and picture books. The use of stories and picture books in early childhood language development and their use in CLIL sessions.

 

 

Story-telling and inclusion.

The topic of the research is the role of story making in order to help inclusion in the primary classroom, in European contexts. Designing and creating a digital tool for creating inclusive stories and the development of in-service teacher training materials.

Internationalisation in higher education, teacher education

The focus of the research is the development of internationalisation in primary and preschool teacher education, develpment of internationalisation strategies and opportunities for on-campus internationalisation.

Digitalisation in primary language education and teacher development in metaphors

During the months of the Covid-19 pandemic, teachers were obliged to switch to emergency remote teaching the world over. Relatively scant attention has been paid to foreign language teachers, especially those working in the primary grades of public education. The research (part of a bigger project) is aimed at identifying (a) the obstacles with which the respondents were confronted, and (b) the potentially beneficial carry-over effects of their newly acquired competences upon their return to the ‘real’ classroom. On the basis of questionnaire and metaphor data analyses, it turns out that although the lockdown period negatively affected the respondents’ mental and emotional well-being, it enhanced their professional development in general, and their familiarity with the technological advances available to foreign language education in particular.

  • 2021 – Trentinné, Benkő Éva; Árva, Valéria; Medina-Casanovas, Núria; Canals-Botines, Mireia – English Language Children’s Literature as a Springboard for Teacher-Researcher International Collaboration – mtmt.hu
  • 2022 – Márkus, Éva; Trentinné, Benkő Éva; Árva, Valéria; Svraka, Bernadett – Languages, Inclusion, Cultures and Pedagogy – mtmt.hu
  • 2024 – Árva, Valéria ✉; Medgyes, Péter; Trentinné, Benkő Éva – A Silver Lining – mtmt.hu
  • 2025 – Árva, Valéria; Trentinné, Benkő Éva – Szaknyelvi fejlesztés az ELTE TÓK-on – mtmt.hu
  • 2025 – Medgyes, Péter; Trentinné Benkő, Éva; Árva, Valéria ✉ – Primary Language Teacher Development in the Aftermath of Emergency Remote Teaching – mtmt.hu