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История на обучението по унгарски език като чужд през погледа на лектора и неговата дейност
Teaching Hungarian as a Foreign Language – Historical Cross-Section Through the Lector’s Perspective

Author(s): Szilárd Sebők
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Education, Foreign languages learning, Applied Linguistics, Language acquisition, Cognitive linguistics, Vocational Education, Adult Education, Higher Education , State/Government and Education, Philology, Inclusive Education / Inclusion, Stylistics
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: Hungarian as a foreign language; history; associate professor Orsolya Nádor; foreign lector

Summary/Abstract: he aim of this paper is to describe the professional career of Orsolya Nádor, associate professor of Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Budapest and current guest professor of the Department of Hungarian Language and Literature of Comenius University in Bratislava. Nádor’s professional career is focused on teaching Hungarian as a foreign language and ensuring the institutional and methodological background of this profession. The first part of the paper gives an overview about the history of teaching Hungarian as a foreign language (from the times of Matthias Bel to the establishment of the pedagogical study programme of Hungarian as a foreign language in 1982). The second part of the paper focuses on the Nádor’s professional career and through it also gives an overview about the history of this field from the 1980’s, when Nádor’s career started. The paper emphasizes her important role in the development of teaching Hungarian as a foreign language by discussing some of her theoretical works and practical syllabuses, highlighting the establishment of the pedagogical study programme of Hungarian as a second language at Károli Gáspár University, and by describing the fourteen-volume handbook of teaching Hungarian as a foreign language edited by Nádor.

  • Issue Year: 47/2020
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 370-378
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Bulgarian