POSSIBLE RESEARCH AREAS AND POTENTIAL SUPERVISORS

A szakdolgozat végső témáját a szakdolgozó és a témavezető közösen alakítja ki; ez általában időigényes folyamat, hiszen több személyes találkozást, konzultációt, együttgondolkodást igényel. Éppen ezért azt ajánljuk, hogy minél korábban keressenek meg akár több oktatót is elképzeléseikkel, ötleteikkel. Javasoljuk, hogy legkésőbb a tervezett leadási félév előtti félév elején igyekezzenek témavezetőt találni.

The topic of the thesis is developed jointly by the student and the supervisor; this is usually a time-consuming process, as it requires several personal meetings, consultations, and joint thinking. That is why we recommend that you contact instructors with your ideas and thesis topic proposals as early as possible. We recommend that you find a supervisor no later than the beginning of the semester before the semester of the intended submission.

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Last update: 15/09/2024

Professor Research areas for BA theses
Zsolt Almási

Renaissance English literature, culture, philosophy
Book history (English Renaissance period)
Shakespeare in the theatre or on the screen
Digital culture
Beatrix Balogh [by negotiation]
Katalin Balogné Bérces

Phonological processes in (accents of) English: description and analysis
English dialectology (recommended topics)
Contrastive study of the phonology of English and other languages; English vs Hungarian; "Hunglish"
János Barcsák Restoration and 18th century poetry

The rise of the novel in the 18th century
Romantic poetry
Victorian poetry
Gyöngyvér Bozsik [by negotiation]
András Cser Sound changes in the history of English
The history of the English word stock
Loandwords in the English language
The history of the science of language
Melinda Dabis [by negotiation]
Kinga Földváry

Shakespeare and renaissance literature
Film adaptations (theoretical questions and case studies)
Popular and visual culture
Postcolonial literature, esp. related to India
Modern and postmodern British literature
Tamás Halm [by negotiation]
Tamás Karáth

Medieval English literature and culture (Old English and Middle English periods)
Medieval theatre
Social, intellectual and cultural history of England
Modern British society
Cross-cultural studies (focussing on Britain, the US and Hungary)
Ildikó Limpár

The American Dream in modern and contemporary American fiction, drama and film
Contemporary ethnic fiction
The literature of the American South
The myth of the American Adam (and its crisis) in American fiction and film
Fantasy and popular literature
Michael McAteer

Modern Irish Writing in English
19th and 20th Century Irish Cultural History
Victorian and Modernist Literature
Modern Drama from Oscar Wilde to Brian Friel
Irish Poetry from W.B. Yeats to Seamus Heaney
Mária Palla

Canadian literature
Canadian culture
Literatures in English
20th century and contemporary British fiction
Márta Pellérdi

Early American literature
Eighteenth and nineteenth-century British novels
Women's fiction
British and American short stories
Károly Pintér

Utopian and distopian fiction in English
English-language science fiction from H. G. Wells to the 1960s
Twentieth-century social and political history of the US
Church and state relations in American history
Constitutional issues and conflicts in American history
Ágnes Piukovics

Second/foreign language phonology
Factors affecting non-native pronunciation acquisition
Foreign accent, features of non-native pronunciation varieties (Hungarian-accented English or "Hunglish" in particular)
Issues in teaching English pronunciation (esp. to Hungarians)
For spring theses, I kindly ask that we have our first consultation (about your topic) before Christmas. Additionally, please plan to start some preliminary work (i.e., reading papers/books on your topic) during the winter exam period. For autumn theses, please ensure we discuss your topic before the summer break begins, and aim to start working on your thesis by September at the latest. Thank you for your understanding and timely preparation!
Andrea Reményi

Language teacher mobility, teaching abroad
Language teaching policy
Language  learners' beliefs
Computational lexicography: academic English, academic Hungarian vocabulary
Spoken interaction in and out of the classroom
Gabriella Reuss

Drama and dramaturgy for the theatre & puppet theatre, performance studies
Intermediality of performances
Adaptation and adaptation theory, case studies
Iconography, symbolism in literature and the visual arts
Ágnes Rónay

Evaluation of the modern methods in language teaching
Using a book or the teacher's own material when teaching a language
The difficulties of teaching English at school
Basic questions of bilingualism
Translations from English into Hungarian by the poets belonging to the first Nyugat generation
Culinary differences between the Hungarian and English cuisine
Evaluation of the different English state language exams
Csilla Sárdi

Second language acquisition
Issues in teaching English as a foreign language (EFL)
Language policy
Intercultural communication
Discourse analysis of specialised texts
In more detail
Veronika Schandl [by negotiation]
Anikó Sohár

Literary translation
SF, fantasy, literature of the fantastic
Myths, legends and (fairy) tales
Comparative literature
Translation Studies
Balázs Surányi

The analysis of some syntactic phenomenon in English
A rating questionnaire study of some syntactic phenomenon in English
A comparison of some syntactic phenomenon in English and Hungarian
A comparison of the treatment of some syntactic phenomenon in traditional descriptive grammars and generative grammar
Syntactic aspects of the speech of learners of English as a second language
Zsuzsa Tóth Individual differences in second language learning: age, FL aptitude, attitudes, motivation, demotivation, anxiety, personality, learning styles, learner strategies

Teacher trainees'/ novice teachers' problems and anxieties
Teachers' classroom language use
Student beliefs about language learning; teacher beliefs & teaching styles
Successful & unsuccessful language learners