Magnuczné Dr Godó Ágnes

Associate Professor, Head of Department

Office: A/6, room 8

E-mail: agnes.magnuczne@uni-miskolc.hu

Phone: 06-46/565-111/17-28

Qualifications

Teacher of Russian and English Language and Literature MA, KLTE, Debrecen; PhD in Language Pedagogy, ELTE-SEAS and Lancaster University, UK 

Curriculum vitae

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Office hours

Mondays 12 - 1 p.m. andd Tuesdays 10 -11 a.m.

Current timetable

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Academic interests

Reflexive practice in language teaching and language teacher training, oral and written discourse and rhetorical analysis, webpage analysis, contrastive rhetoric, English as a Lingua Franca in ELT, teaching foreign languages to learners with SEN

Thesis topics

1. Foreign language learning (strategies, practices, motivations, beliefs and attitudes of successful and unsuccessful learners, language anxiety, aptitude, polyglots' strategies, teaching foreign languages to learners with dyslexia and other special education needs)

2. The age factor in foreign language learning (Are young children always better language learners? No hope for adults? How to interpret success and failure in adult foreign language learning?, etc.)

3. English as a Lingua Franca in school contexts and workplace communication

5. Pragmatics (language functions in social media communication, breaking the Gricean Maxims as a source of dominance and humour, implicature in advertising, etc.)

6. Rhetorical and discourse analysis (expressing a personal voice in academic writing and presentation, communicating with the audience, signposting in academic speech and writing, etc.) 

Personal space

Links to materials

Linguistic rights and language policy issues in relation to English as a Lingua Franca: E-learning course for undergraduate English Studies programmes

Presentation Skills