1. Judit Kormos is a professor and the Director of Studies for the MA TESOL Distance programme at the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, United Kingdom.
12 Facts About Judit Kormos
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Judit Kormos is renowned for her work on motivation in second language learning, and self-regulation in second language writing.
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Judit Kormos graduated at the School of English and American Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of the Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary in 1994.
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Judit Kormos gained her PhD at the Eotvos Lorand University in 1999.
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Judit Kormos took up a lecturer position at the Lancaster University in 2008.
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Judit Kormos chose to be called Reader in Second Language Acquisition.
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On 8 January 2015, Judit Kormos was awarded a personal chair.
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Judit Kormos was one the coordinators of the Dyslexia For Teachers Of English Foreign Language Project, funded by the European Commission.
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Judit Kormos has been an Editor of Special Thematic Issues and Associate Journal Editor of the Language Learning.
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In 2012, Judit Kormos was interviewed by the Hungarian television channel ATV on recent changes in foreign language teaching policies in Hungary.
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Judit Kormos emphasised the important role of teaching students to learn foreign languages independently and autonomously with the help of modern technological tools.
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Judit Kormos said that teaching methods and materials need to be adapted for dyslexic students, instead of taking them out of second language classes.