In Spring 2023 16 first-year students will have the opportunity to participate in the International Speaking Skills Development program, jointly administered by DEL and Indiana University Bloomington (IUB). In the framework of this program, our students will discuss a variety of topics regarding professional language use with undergraduate students from IUB with a special interest in second language acquisition and education.
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Our senior lecturer and department head Éva Kardos was awarded as the Female Scientist of the Year by the University of Debrecen at the UD ceremony on 26 November 2022. Congratulations for the outstanding achievement!
Our former PhD-student Christina Hodeib (currently assistant lecturer at DEL) formally received her PhD-certificate at the UniDeb ceremony on 26 November 2022. Congratulations!
Following the success of DEL Game night I in 2020, we invite everyone for another Game Night with us on 24 November, room 58 from 19:00. We promise good time, snacks, and more. If you’re interested in language games and a lot of competition, bring your friends and join us there. FB-event
The Department of English Linguistics cordially invites everyone to the UniDeb-IEAS local round of the 36th OTDK, linguistics session. Time: 18 November, 2022, 10:00-11:00 Venue: room 101 (library reading room)
The students of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Debrecen, who received a National Higher Education Scholarship this year, received their awards at a ceremony on 4 October in the dean's council room. Among the prize winners are two of our linguistics students, Rebeka Karajos and Kamilla Lilla Sándor. Congratulations!
DEL has participated in the event of Researchers' Night 2022 at UD-IEAS. Our program, was a "linguistic world trip", which consisted of quizzes about idioms, kinship terminology, dialects of English and the Klingon language (from Star Trek). The turnout was great, the visitors really liked the quizzes and the small gifts that we could offer.
31 employees of 6 faculties of the University of Debrecen has won a total of HUF 1.2 billion for research in the coming years in the Hungarian national research program run by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH). From DEL, György Rákosi, Enikő Tóth and Péter Szűcs participate in the project “Comprehensive description of Hungarian demonstratives” led by Péter Csatár (Institute of German Studies).
One of our PhD-students, Andrea Szávó has successfully applied for a grant within the Hungarian New National Excellence Program with her research "Investigating the syntax and semantics of Hungarian resultative constructions in light of new empirical data". Congratulations to Andi and her supervisor, Éva Kardos!
Tibor Laczkó (Károli Gáspár Reformed University) will be teaching a phd-course course at DEL on Lexical-Functional Grammar this semester. All interested people are welcome, the syllabus can be accessed here.