Péter Medgyes
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Péter Medgyes | |
|---|---|
| Medgyes Péter | |
 | |
| Born | 6 August 1945 |
| Citizenship | Hungarian |
| Occupations | linguist, academic, diplomat |
| Spouse | Valéria Árva |
| Children | Réka (1971) Kata (1975) Bálint (2001) |
| Awards | Duke of Edinburgh English Language Book Competition (1995) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Eötvös Loránd University |
| Alma mater | Budapest University (Eötvös Loránd University) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Applied linguistics, Language education |
| Institutions | Eötvös Loránd University |
Péter Medgyes (6 August 1945, Budapest) is a professor emeritus at the School of English and American Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of Eötvös Loránd University.[1]
After obtaining an English-Russian teacher degree from Eötvös Loránd University, he started teaching in one of the ELTE's practice school, Radnóti Miklós Secondary School in Budapest.[2] After teaching 15 years at secondary level, he received a position at the Department of English of the Eötvös Loránd University.
After the end of communism in Hungary, he established the Centre for English Teacher Training (CETT) at the ELTE. He was also the director of the CETT.
After earning a Doctor of Philosophy degree in language pedagogy, he became a university professor. Since 2013, he has been an Emeritus at the ELTE.
He has written 42 books that were published in Hungary, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In 1991, his book entitled 'When in Britain', co-written with Rob Nolasco, was published by Oxford University Press.[3] One of his most successful book, entitled 'The non-native teacher' was published in 1994 by Macmillan Publishers.[4] In 2003, his book entitled 'Laughing matters: Humour in the language classroom' was published by Cambridge University Press.[5]
Ha was also the chief editor of the Hungarian journal entitled Modern Nyelvoktatás (in English: Modern Language Teaching).[6]
He founded the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language-Hungary in 1990 and he has been the patron of the organisation for many years.[7][8]
Political career
He was the Ambassador of Hungary in Damascus, Syria between 2005 and 2009.[9][10]
