Péter Medgyes

Péter Medgyes (6 August 1945, Budapest) is a professor emeritus at the School of English and American Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of Eötvös Loránd University.

Career After obtaining an English-Russian teacher degree from Eötvös Loránd University, he started teaching in one of the ELTE's practice school, Radnóti Miklós Secondary School in Budapest. After teaching 15 years at secondary level, he received a position at the Department of English of the Eötvös Loránd University.

After the end of communism in Hungary, he established the Centre for English Teacher Training (CETT) at the ELTE. He was also the director of the CETT.

After earning a Doctor of Philosophy degree in language pedagogy, he became a university professor. Since 2013, he has been an Emeritus at the ELTE.

He has written 42 books that were published in Hungary, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In 1991, his book entitled 'When in Britain', co-written with Rob Nolasco, was published by Oxford University Press. One of his most successful book, entitled 'The non-native teacher' was published in 1994 by Macmillan Publishers. In 2003, his book entitled 'Laughing matters: Humour in the language classroom' was published by Cambridge University Press.

He was also the chief editor of the Hungarian journal entitled Modern Nyelvoktatás (in English: Modern Language Teaching).

He founded the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language-Hungary in 1990 and he has been the patron of the organisation for many years.

Political career He was the Ambassador of Hungary in Damascus, Syria between 2005 and 2009.

Major works Linda and the Greenies; Tankönyvkiadó, Bp., 1984 Medgyes Péter–Helen Thomas: Osztály, vigyázz! Iskolai kifejezések gyűjteménye angol és magyar nyelven; Tankönyvkiadó, Bp., 1985 Medgyes Péter–Rob Nolasco: When in Britain; Oxford University Press, 1990 The non-native teacher; Macmillan, 1994 A kommunikatív nyelvoktatás; Eötvös, Bp., 1995 Medgyes Péter–Angi Malderez (szerk.): Changing perspectives in teacher education; Heinemann, 1996 A nyelvtanár. A nyelvtanítás módszertana. Dialógus; jegyz., feladatok Major Éva; Corvina, Bp., 1997 (Egyetemi könyvtár) Laughing matters: Humour in the language classroom; Cambridge University Press, 2002 Medgyes Péter–Major Éva: A nyelvtanár. A nyelvtanítás módszertana. Dialógus; 2. átdolg. kiad.; Corvina, Bp., 2004 (Egyetemi könyvtár) Mi ebben a vicc? Angol–magyar humor nyelvtanulóknak; Corvina, Bp., 2008 Aranykor. Nyelvoktatásunk két évtizede, 1989-2009; Nemzeti Tankönyvkiadó, Bp., 2011 Töprengések a nyelvtanításról; Eötvös, Bp., 2015 The non-native teacher; 3. kiadás; Swan Communication, 2017 Világgá mentem, avagy hogy kerül egy angoltanár 100 országba?; Corvina, Bp., 2018 Milyen a jó előadó?; Corvina, Bp., 2020

Awards

Language course book award (1979, 1986) Soros research scholarship (USA) (1987) Fulbright scholarship (USA) (1988-1989) Visiting professor at Lancaster University (UK) (1993–94) Duke of Edinburgh Book Competition Award (UK) (1995) Hungarian gold medal (1998) Honorary doctor of State University of New York (USA) (1998)