ABOUT
I'm Rita, a Hungarian EFL teacher and teacher trainer. I got my masters in English and French Language Pedagogy in 2015 and I've been teaching very enthusiastically ever since.
I spent the first years of my career at ELTE at a preparatory programme for international students, where I taught mixed ability students coming from different parts of the world. Some years ago, I started teaching English majors at two Hungarian universities, which has been an absolute pleasure. I also got involved in teacher training - I'm teaching methodology related courses at ELTE and giving workshops at conferences. I'm also doing my PhD at the same institution, so as you can see, I love to keep myself busy.
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How can I describe my teaching methods?
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Actually, I am an advocate for 21st century pedagogy, I'm a fan of innovation and I really think that being a teacher is not just about teaching the subject. So, English teaching is not just about teaching the language but also about teaching STUDENTS. So, developing students to be effective 21st century global citizens is my priority. In order to achieve this, their 4 Cs must be nurtured: creativity, collaboration, critical thinking and communication. Every single day in the classroom, these are my guiding principles. In order to do that, it's vital to create an environment where students feel valued and encouraged to speak up about anything. Student-teacher rapport is extremely important to me. When I started my PhD, my interests and my teaching experience guided me towards dealing with the hows of teaching global, local and intercultural issues in the EFL classroom, so I made global competence development my main research interest.
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This website started as part of my research project - the first 10 activity sequences published were created for my classroom research. The other activities published were either created by me to do with my groups in the past few years or created by my methodology students (I always indicate these cases).
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If you're interested in my other published worksheets, check out my other two websites (see the links below)
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PUBLICATIONS
Divéki, R. (2018). Teachers’ attitudes towards dealing with controversial issues in the EFL classroom: A pilot study. Working Papers in Language Pedagogy, 12, 27-54.
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Divéki, R. (2019). Using songs in the EFL classroom to nurture gloal citizens. IATEFL GISIG Newsletter, 40, 17-23.
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Divéki, R. (2020). Dealing with global, local and intercultural issues for global competence development in teacher training: A pilot study on the views of university tutors in Hungary. In Károly, K., Lázár, I. & Gall, C. (Eds.). Culture and intercultural communication: Research and education (pp. 91-112). Budapest: School of English and American Studies.
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Divéki, R. (2020). One step towards becoming responsible global citizens: or how I made my students read the news in eight months. In: Ruas, L. (Ed.) Creating global change (pp. 132-136). IATEFL Office.
OTHER PROJECTS
Here you can find some tips on using talk show snippets during your English lesson.
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A website created for teachers of English as a foreign language. Come and check it out if you like using songs in your English lessons. Worksheets, activities for the IWB, teaching tips... and the hottest hits for you and your students!