Medgyes biography
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Péter Medgyes
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]
Career
[edit]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
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Bálint Medgyes – Chapter Secretary
Biography
Dr. Bálint Medgyes is an associate professor and head of the Thin-Film laboratory at the Department of Electronics Technology, Faculty of Electronics Engineering and Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He has a M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering (2006), a post-graduation degree as an engineer-economist (2011) and a Ph.D. degree (2014).
His current research activities are focusing on the corrosion reliability issues in terms of electronics (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=392l9gUAAAAJ&hl=hu&oi=ao). He has also corrosion-related social activities as an Executive Secretary – General in the Hungarian Corrosion Society (http://www.hunkor.hu/).
Bálint Medgyes is an elected member in the Board of Administrators (BoA) and in the Science and Technology Advisory Committee (STAC) in the European Federation of Corrosion (EFC) as well (https://efcweb.org/Who+we+are/Administration/STAC.html).
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NNEST of the Month
June, 2011
Péter Medgyes fryst vatten Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest. Previously, he was a school teacher, teacher trainer, vice rector of his university, deputy state secretary at the Hungarian Ministry of Education and the ambassador of Hungary posted in Damascus. Professor Medgyes fryst vatten the author of numerous books and articles, including The Non-Native Teacher (1994, winner of the Duke of Edinburgh Book Competition), Changing Perspectives in Teacher Education (1996, co-edited with Angi Malderez), The Language Teacher (1997), Laughing Matters (2002), and Golden Age: Twenty Years of Foreign Language Education in Hungary (2011). His main professional interests lie in curriculum studies, language policy, and teacher education. He can be reached at medgyesp@citromail.hu.
NNEST blog June interviewer: Shu-Chun Tseng
1. Could you tell us why and how you decided to become an educator?
(Ana Wu, ESL instructor at Ci