Eva Illes

Eötvös Loránd University · Department of English Applied Linguistics

This volume contains articles based on presentations delivered at the 31st IATEFL-Hungary conference in Veszprém, 8–9 October 2021, contains one peer-reviewed and four non-peer-reviewed papers. The contributions cover a variety of themes in English language teaching, including language policy, teachers’ professional development, students’ well-bein...

This article explores the potential of the classroom as a venue for authentic, real-life language use, and highlights the importance of unplanned classroom communication. Examples from the lessons of prospective English teachers in Hungary and Turkey indicate that, when given the opportunity, EFL students enjoy using the L2 spontaneously. The class...

This article explores whether the perception of learner autonomy that is promoted in language pedagogy is suitable for preparing students to perform successfully in the changed circumstances of the use of English. Recent developments, which include the growing role of English as a lingua franca and computer-mediated communication (CMC), give rise t...

The objective of this small-scale study is twofold. On the one hand, it investigates the contact experiences and the attitude of secondary school students towards English as an international language. On the other, it offers an insight into the validation of a questionnaire by foregrounding the process where a pilot questionnaire has been evaluated...

Intriguingly, at a time when the ELT market is inundated with state-of-the-art coursebooks teaching modern-day English, a 30-year-old series enjoys continuing popularity in some secondary schools in Hungary. Why would teachers, several of whom are school-based teacher–mentors in the vanguard of the profession, purposefully choose materials which we...

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