Judit Kormos

Judit Kormos
Born (1970-05-11) 11 May 1970
Budapest, Hungary
Residence Lancaster, United Kingdom
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Children

2

Awards
  • Solidarity Award (2006)
  • Pilkington Teaching Award (2012)
  • Duke of Edinburgh Book Prize Shortlist (2012)
  • National Teaching Fellowship Award (2013)
Scientific career
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Doctoral advisor Zoltán Dörnyei
Website Kormos on the website of Lancaster University

Judit Kormos (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈjudit ˈkormoʃ]) (born 1970) is a professor of applied linguistics at the Lancaster University, United Kingdom.[1] She is renowned for her work on motivation in second language learning, and self-regulation in second language writing. Her current interest is in dyslexia in second language learning.

Along with Rosa Manchón she has been noted for her work on the cognitive dimension of the acquisition and use of second languages, with emphasis on the psycholinguistic dimension of textual production and along with Cumming, Hyland, Manchón, Matsuda, Ortega, Polio, Storch and Verspoor she has been considered as one of the most influential researchers on second language writing.

Career

Kormos graduated at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary in 1994. Kormos gained her PhD at the Eötvös Loránd University in 1999.[2] Her PhD was supervised by Zoltán Dörnyei. Kormos took up a lecturer position at the Lancaster University in 2008. [3] and was promoted to a Readership in 2012. She chose to be called Reader in Second Language Acquisition.[4] On 8 January 2015, Kormos was awarded a personal chair. Her title became "Professor of Second Language Acquisition".[5]

She is the coordinator of the Dyslexia For Teachers Of English Foreign Language Project, funded by the European Commission.[6] Since 2011, she has been a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Second Language Writing.[7] She has been an Editor of Special Thematic Issues and Associate Journal Editor of the Language Learning.[8]

In 2012, Kormos was interviewed by the Hungarian television channel ATV on recent changes in foreign language teaching policies in Hungary. She emphasised the important role of teaching students to learn foreign languages independently and autonomously with the help of modern technological tools.[9] On 21 May 2014, Pearson Education released a new video lecture series on dyslexia and foreign language learning on YouTube. Kormos features in the first video of the series and discusses the psychological effects of dyslexia on the processes of foreign language learning.[10][11]

In 2014, Kormos together with a European team from five partner countries won the ELTons award of the British Council in the Excellence in Course Innovation category.[12][13] On 20 June 2014, she was cited in the Education webpage of the Guardian in a recent article on teaching languages to students with disabilities.[14]

Academic Awards

  • National Teaching Fellowship Award (2013)[15][16]
  • Duke of Edinburgh Book Prize Shortlist (2012) [17]
  • Pilkington Teaching Award (2012) [18]

Bibliography

Books

  • Kormos, J. (Editor) (2014). Speech production and second language acquisition. Routledge. ISBN 978-0805856583

Articles

  • Kormos, J. & Dénes M. (2004). Exploring measures and perceptions of fluency in the speech of second language learners. System, 32(2), 145-164.
  • Dörnyei Z. & Kormos J. (2000). The role of individual and social variables in oral task performance. Language Teaching Research, 4(3), 275-300.
  • Kormos J. & Csizér K. (2008). Age‐related differences in the motivation of learning English as a foreign language: Attitudes, selves, and motivated learning behavior. Language Learning, 58(2), 327-355.

References

  1. ↑ "Dr. Judit Kormos - Department of Linguistics and English Language". Lancaster University. 5 July 2014.
  2. ↑ "Személyi adatlap". ELTE BTK Doktori Iskola. 5 July 2014.
  3. ↑ "DR Judit Kormos". The Higher Education Academy. 5 July 2014.
  4. ↑ "Judit Kormos promoted to a Readership". Lancaster University. 1 October 2012.
  5. ↑ "Judit Kormos awarded a personal chair". Lancaster University. 8 January 2015.
  6. ↑ "DysTEFL". DYSTEFL. 5 July 2014.
  7. ↑ https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-second-language-writing/editorial-board
  8. ↑ "Language Learning". Onlinelibrary.wiley.com. 2018.
  9. ↑ "Interview on Hungarian television about language learning policy". DYSTEFL. 28 December 2012.
  10. ↑ "Judit Kormos features in lecture series on the effects of dyslexia on foreign language learning". Lancaster University. 21 May 2014.
  11. ↑ "Dyslexic Learners in the EFL Classroom: Part 1". YouTube. 2 April 2014.
  12. ↑ "Judit Kormos and the Dystefl team win British Council ELTon award". Lancaster University. 23 May 2014.
  13. ↑ "The ELTons Awards 2014". British Council. 23 May 2014.
  14. ↑ "Inspiring students with learning disabilities to take up a language". Guardian. 20 June 2014.
  15. ↑ "National Teaching Fellows 2013". Guardian. 2 July 2013.
  16. ↑ "Judit Kormos wins National Teaching Fellowship Award". Lancaster University. 2 July 2013.
  17. ↑ "Duke of Edinburgh Book Prize Shortlist". Lancaster University. 30 November 2012.
  18. ↑ "Pilkington Teaching Award". Lancaster University. 5 June 2012.
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