| Team Members: Eszterhazy Karoly Katolikus Egyetem, Hungary | |
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| Péter Dolmányos, PhD, is associate professor at the Department of English and American Studies at Eszterházy Károly Catholic University. His research interests focus primarily on contemporary Irish literature and culture. He teaches courses on English and Irish literature as well as ESP courses related to EU terminology. In addition to his university work he has two decades of experience of teaching at secondary level, having been involved in bilingual education (Geography in English, with the publication of a textbook for secondary school students). |  |
| Karin Macdonald is an experienced classroom language teacher. She started her professional career in 1994 as a German and French teacher at a secondary comprehensive school in England, United Kingdom. She continued as a German teacher at a Grammar School in England, before training to teach English as a foreign language and first moving to Eger Hungary in 1999. She soon began working as an English language teacher at the (now) university in Eger but returned to the UK in 2002 to complete a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching at the University of Southampton. Before returning to Eger to work permanently as a master teacher at the university in Eger in 2016, she continued to gain experience in different teaching settings, including teaching English at one of the European Schools in Brussels. Since returning to the university in 2016, Karin has taken on the role of Language Development Coordinator in the Department of English and American Studies, coordinating with Language Development team members on the structure of courses and the English Proficiency exam at the department. Recent publications are related to the language courses she designed for a three year EU project that fostered 21st century skills for secondary and university language students in Hungary. |  |
| Rita DiFiore, a Hungarian native, earned her MEd in TESOL at DeSales University, Pennsylvania, USA. Her US experience includes teaching ESP and EAP courses for international graduate and undergraduate students at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, teaching citizenship classes and training interpreters at various community colleges in NJ and PA, working as a bilingual Russian-English instructor at Elizabeth High School in Elizabeth, NJ, and serving as a diplomatic Hungarian-English interpreter for the US Department of State and a translator for international agencies. Since 2018, she has been employed as a faculty member at the Department of English and American Studies of Eszterhazy Karoly Catholic University in Eger, Hungary where she is responsible for researching, designing, and implementing innovative, competency-based language development courses that focus on interdisciplinary topics while developing 21st century transferable skills. In her free time, she enjoys providing language assistance for contributors of an online journal that publishes research about volunteerism. |  |
| Krisztina KALÓ (PhD), associate professor, Department of British and American Studies, Faculty of Arts and Letters, Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, Eger, Hungary, conducts seminars on British literature from the beginnings to the 19th century, teaches specialised translation at BA and MA levels, and does research in classical and modern epistolary novels, mainly but not exclusively in European and North-American literature. Her field of interest expands beyond the traditional letter and covers the most recent epistolary forms, such as email or text messages in literary works. She is also involved in theatre, drama and the use of drama techniques in language classes (ESL). As responsible for the drama module of “Discover Your English Voice”, an ESL project with the cooperation of her university and eleven secondary schools, she has run drama groups for trainee teachers. Building on this experience, she is the author of a teacher‘s manual (High School Drama, A Handbook of Creative Activities for Secondary School Teachers, Líceum Kiadó, Eger, 2021). She translates literary and non-literary texts from and into Hungarian, English, and French. |  |
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