Szesztay Margit

Margit Szesztay currently teaches language improvement courses at the Department of English Language Pedagogy. She has been involved in training English language teachers since 1990.  She has played a major role in developing the methodology strand of the B.Ed. curriculum at the Centre for English Teacher Training. Her responsibilities at the Centre included teaching experience support, thesis supervision, and staff development. In addition, she coordinated a network of English Language Teacher Educators for two years (Resources Pool Network), has run many in-service workshops and seminars in and outside of Hungary, and served on the committees of IATEFL Hungary and IATEFL International  in various capacities.  Her main areas of interest include learning from group interaction and professional language development for teachers. Her doctoral research with the University of Exeter explored the potential research holds for teacher development. Between 2001-2002 she was a Fulbright scholar at the School for International Training, teaching on the School's MAT programme and carrying out research within their Teacher Knowledge Project.