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Curriculum vitae: Eszter Timár

Name in full: Dr. Eszter Timár

Telephone number: (36-1) 327-3059

E-mail: timare@ceu.hu

Education and qualifications

1971-1976: Budapest Loránd Eötvös University, studying English and Hungarian literature and linguistics and language teaching methodology

1976: Secondary school teacher's degree

1983: PhD in American literature (Plays and short stories of 20th century authors) - "summa cum laude" degree

1987: Translator's diploma (English - Hungarian)

Experience and achievements

August 2002-to date: Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary - Academic Writing Instructor for the Center for Academic Writing.

Teaching: Academic writing and offering individual consultations

1991-to 2002: Director of Studies for Bell School Budapest: organising, designing,

observing courses, curriculum development, recruiting teachers.

Teaching: FCE, CAE, Business English, University Entrance Preparation, Teacher training, In-service training

1993-to 2002: Part-time lecturer at Applied Linguistics Department of

Budapest Eötvös Loránd University.

Teaching EFL Methodology to five-year students and supervising

doctoral dissertations in Language Teaching Methodology

1976- 1990: Teaching at Budapest College for Foreign Trade.

Main areas of teaching: EFL, Business and Translation

1989-1990: Temporary head of English Department of College for Foreign Trade.

1987-1989: Part-time lecturer at Budapest Teacher Training College:

Main areas of teaching: Literature, EFL and British Studies

CEU-related outreach work

2003 and 2004 summer: Klaipeda International Summer School for teachers and PhD

students.

Leading two-week academic writing courses in Klaipeda, Lithuania.

2004 and 2005 summer: Leading one-week teacher training courses in Csikszereda, Romania.

2006 summer: OSI Higher Education Support Program, Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching. Teaching academic writing in Moscow, Russia.

2007 summer: OSI Higher Education Support Program, Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching. Teaching academic writing in Sevastopol, Ukraine.

2008, April: Two-day academic writing workshop at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany.

2008, April-June: Teaching academic writing at the Hungarian National Bank.

2007 and 2008: Teaching academic writing at the PILLAR College for talented students of economics and law

2009 summer: Teaching academic writing within the Central Asia Research and Training Initiative (CARTI)

Papers on academic writing presented at conferences

June 2005: Icing on the cake? A comparative analysis of experienced and novice

writers’ titles in social sciences.

European Association of Teaching Academic Writing, Athens, Athens.

June 2007: A genre-based writing course for subject specialists: Case study.

European Association of Teaching Academic Writing, Bochum,

March 2007: Teaching writing as a skill. CUP Conference, Budapest, Hungary

March, 2008: Teaching Academic Vocabulary: Some ideas on what to teach, why and

how. CUP Conference, Budapest, Hungary.

April 2009: Practical Tips for Teaching and Testing Writing.

Conference of Association of Language Schools, Budapest, Hungary.

May 2009: Teaching “Real Writing” with answers. CUP Conference, Budapest, Hungary

June 2009: Stylistic Characteristics of Topic Sentences

European Association of Teaching Academic Writing, Athens, Coventry.

LIST OF MAIN PUBLICATIONS

Papers

Relationships of the drama and the short story in works by Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams. 1982. Doctoral dissertation in Hungarian.

The Deaths of Salesmen. The short story that A. Miller's play is based on.1984.

Filológiai Közlöny, No.1.

Possible Sources for Two O'Neill One-Acts. 1982. The Eugene O'Neill Newsletter, Boston, Winter issue.

A comparison of Tennessee Williams's early and later plays. 1985.

In Hungarian in College for Foreign Trade Yearbook, Budapest. Külkereskedelmi Főiskola.

Az osztály és az óra szervezése. [The Class and Class Management.] 1994.

In: Pro Renovanda Cultura Hungariae Foundation's Handbook, ELTE English Department.

Criss Cross, Max Hueber Verlag 1998. Book review. In: Modern Nyelvoktatás, No.1.

Lessons to be learnt from a World Bank English teacher training project. 2000. Novelty, February.

Academic writing: Teaching on line and face to face—EATAW Conference 2005. Journal of Second language Writing. Volume 15, Issue 2. June 2006.

Full books translated from Hungarian to English

Csukás István-Gál Éva: Yappie looks around in Budapest. 1989. A translation from Hungarian into English. Budapest: Móra Publishing House.

• Driving in Hungary - A guidebook to Hungary. 2002. Budapest: VIVA Media Holding.

• For the First Time in Hungarian - The first printed books in Hungarian. 2005. Budapest: Bibliotheca Nationalis Hungariae.

• A star in the raven’s Shadow – János Vitéz and the beginnings of Humanism in Hungary. 2008. Budapest: National Széchényi Library.

Full book translated from English to Hungarian

• Andrew Littlejohn-Diana Hicks: Módszertani ABC (A translation of Methodology A-Z.) 1999. Budapest: CUP.

EFL books written alone

Angolul közép- és felsõfokon. 1995, second edition in 1996.

Take Your Language Exam! English at Intermediate and Advanced Level.

Budapest: Nemzeti Tankönyvkiadó.

Essential English. Limba Engleza in Teste si Exercitii. 1977. Bucharest: Teora.

• Listening. Listening Practice at Intermediate and Advanced levels. 2000.

Budapest: Nemzeti Tankönyvkiadó.

Words, words, words. Vocabulary at Intermediate and Advanced levels. 2004, second edition in 2005. Budapest: Nemzeti Tankönyvkiadó.

EFL books written with co-authors

Holló Dorottya - Kontráné Hegybíró Edit - Timár Eszter: A krétától a videóig. Nyelvtanárok kézikönyve. [From the Chalk to the Video. Language Teachers' Handbook.] 1996. Budapest: Nemzeti Tankönyvkiadó.

Kereszturi Eszter – Timár Eszter: Tried and Tested - Középfokú Kézikönyv. 2002. Budapest: Nemzeti Tankönyvkiadó.

Editing a collection of environmental syllabi for university courses

Innovative Syllabi for University Courses. 2008. Eds. Dronin, N., Richer, R. and Timar, E. Budapest: Central European University Press.

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