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the Outstanding Thesis Award
Every summer SEAS selects a small number of theses submitted in that academic year (an autumn and a subsequent spring term), which are deemed worthy of special attention. The authors of these theses are distinguished by the Outstanding Thesis Award.
If their author approves, outstanding theses are published in overSEAS since 2010.
winners in 2024
Zsombor Zoltán Béres, Causativity and the Size of the Verb Phrase, BA thesis, supervisor: Krisztina Szécsényi
Lili Harangozó, Using Literature in the EFL Classroom to Foster Social and Emotional Learning, OTAK thesis, supervisor: Divéki Rita
Réka Kökény, Overcoming Adolescent Powerlessness: The Narratological Function of Primrose Everdeen’s Death in The Hunger Games Trilogy, MA thesis, supervisor: Vera Benczik
Dương Lê Hải, Improving Teenage Vietnamese Learners’ Attitudes towards Learning English, ELI MA thesis, supervisor: Christopher Ryan
Loretta Lestár, Blessing or curse: The representation of the Convict Era in Kate Grenville’s The Secret River, MA thesis, supervisor: Cecilia Gall
Tima Ziad Maree, “Voices Unveiled”: A Discourse Analysis of the Stories Shared by Arab Women Within the MeToo Movement, MA thesis, supervisor: Nóra Wünsch-Nagy
Viktória Pesti, Singular They: Agreement and Concord, BA thesis, supervisor: Marcel den Dikken
Kartikey Sharma, Reading Haider: Exploring the Filmic Language of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Kashmir, BA thesis, supervisor: Annamária Fábián
Zsófia Tóth, A Comparative Analysis of Different Representations of Jo March in Little Women, BA thesis, supervisor: Eszter Vilmos
Sofia Ulnyrova, The Relevance of Using Formulaic Language for English Language Learners, BA thesis, supervisor: Brigitta Dóczi
Csenge Vargha, The Posthuman in Jean Rhys’s Novels: Colonialism, Landscape and Inanimation, MA thesis, supervisor: Kata Gyuris
Boglárka Warta, Examining ESP Methodology in Two Hungarian University Contexts, OTAK thesis, supervisor: Jamil Toptsi
winners in 2023
Anna Ábel, An Analysis of the Relationship Between Hungarian Secondary Grammar School Teachers’ Oral Error Correction Practices and their Belief Systems, OTAK thesis, supervisor: Brigitta Dóczi
Boróka Andl-Beck, Imagining ‘the Gypsy’ in Nineteenth-Century English Literature, MA thesis, supervisor: Andrea Timár
András Basa-Tamás, The Dynamics of Gender Roles in the Plays of William Inge, MA thesis, supervisor: Pál Hegyi
Lilla Bohanek, Investigating Secondary School Students’ Perceptions on Movement Integration in the EFL Classroom, OTAK thesis, supervisor: Beatrix Price
Anita Botos, Ideology and Party Cohesion in the Democratic Party: The New Wave of Progressives, BA thesis, supervisor: Éva Eszter Szabó
Tikhon Gostiukhin, Error Detection in Reading in English: An Eye-Tracking Investigation, MA thesis, supervisor: Ágnes Albert
Eszter Mária Gál, The Massacre of the Indigenous Australians – The Genocide Debate, BA thesis, supervisor: Cecilia Gall
Kata Hlavács, The Characterisation of Educational Context in Second Language Learning Motivation, BA thesis, supervisor: Katalin Wein
Mohamad Ali Khalil, On the Morphosyntax of Lebanese Arabic: Form II, Its Manifestations and Functions, MA thesis, supervisor: Marcel den Dikken
Mubashara Khan, Haywood and Reeve: Oriental Female Archetype in the Occidental Literary Imagination, BA thesis, supervisor: Zsolt Bojti
Fanni Orsolya Kovács, From the Bonds of the Literary Father to Discovering the Authorial Voice: Analyzing Paul Auster’s Plays through the Legacy of Samuel Beckett, BA thesis, supervisor: Pál Hegyi
Petra Szabó, The Effect of Story-Based Teaching in the Second Language Classroom, OTAK thesis, supervisor: Francis J. Prescott-Pickup
winners in 2022
Alexandra Berecz, The Reality of Illusion and the Illusion of Reality in Waiting for Godot and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, BA thesis, supervisor: Márta Hargitai
Dominika Zsófia Gerber, Doublets in English of French Origin, BA thesis, supervisor: Attila Starčević
Zita Kiss-Szabó, Classroom Management: Encouraging Student Engagement and Cooperation, OTAK thesis, supervisor: Uwe Pohl
Panna Kovács, The Positive Effects of Bilingualism on the Communicative and Linguistic Competence and Cognitive Development of 3-to-10-Year-Old Children, BA thesis, supervisor: Judit Szitó
Annamária Molnár, Fostering Cultural Empathy and Self-Reflection in the Language Classroom, OTAK thesis, supervisor: Andrea Gabrielle Thürmer
Lilian Rácz, Music and the Modernist Novel: Forster, Joyce, Woolf, MA thesis, supervisor: Eglantina Remport
Ferenc Réder, Words to Be: On the Poetic Language of Robert Creeley, BA thesis, supervisor: Enikő Bollobás
Júlia Somody, Secondary School English Teachers’ Views and Practices of Learner Autonomy in the Hungarian Context, MA thesis, supervisor: Ágnes Albert
Márta Inez K. Szabó, African American Women and the Struggle for Civil Rights: Gender and Class During the Civil Rights Movement, BA thesis, supervisor: Dániel Cseh
Fanni Vad, The Effects of Obligatory Distance Teaching on EFL Teachers’ Use of ICT Tools, OTAK thesis, supervisor: Francis J. Prescott
winners in 2021
Orsolya Albert, The Fantastic and the Feminine Sublime of Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, BA thesis, supervisor: Katalin Szlukovényi
Noémi Dremmel, Benefits of Lexical Phrases in English Language Learning, BA thesis, supervisor: Brigitta Dóczi
Katalin Gay, Bringing Global Issues into the English Classroom through Storytelling, MEd thesis, supervisor: Rita Divéki
Tamás András Halm, Truncated Clauses in English and in Hungarian: Virtual Performatives in English — The Outlines of a Syntactic Analysis, BA thesis, supervisor: Marcel den Dikken
Jákob János Horváth, The Background of an American–Hungarian Political Game: The Return of the Holy Crown of St. Stephen, MA thesis, supervisor: Tibor Frank
Ákos Hunyadi, The Effects of Racial Politics on the 2020 American Presidential Election , BA thesis, supervisor: Réka Fehér
Hamza Khan, The Representation of Aboriginal Women in Australian Cinema, BA thesis, supervisor: Cecilia Gall
Fanni Kondorosi, Learners’ and Teachers’ Views on the Advantages and Disadvantages of Being an Introvert in Second Language Acquisition: An Interview Study in a Hungarian Secondary School Context, MEd thesis, supervisor: Csaba Kálmán
Dóra Sápi, Lost Childhood: The Traumatic Experiences of Child Migrants in Australia and Their Search for Identity, MA thesis, supervisor: Cecilia Gall
Luca Mária Szikora, Voicing Assimilation in English and in Voicing Languages: A Comparison of English and Hungarian, BA thesis, supervisor: Zoltán G. Kiss
Kata Woynárovich, An Interview Study on Language Learning Motivation: The Case of English and Other Languages, MA thesis, supervisor: Kata Csizér
winners in 2020
Sanaa El Alaoui, Long Takes and Continuity in the Narrative of Filmic Language, BA thesis, supervisor: Miklós Lojkó
Virág Dancsó, The Hungarian Secondary School Student’s Difficulties When Learning English as a Global Language, MA thesis, supervisor: Francis J. Prescott
Afaf Hamada, The Representation of Australian Aboriginal Women in Selected Works by Non-Aboriginal Authors, MA thesis, supervisor: Cecilia Gall
Róbert Tamás Hauer, Realpolitik in America: Foreign Affairs by Henry Kissinger between 1969 and 1973, BA thesis, supervisor: William Hoversen
Péter Ittzés, American Philosophy in the Music of Charles Ives, BA thesis, supervisor: Amy Nicole Soto
Loretta Anna Jungbauer, Representation of Death in Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great, Parts One and Two, MA thesis, supervisor: Marcell Gellért
Berta Eszter Kaposi, Analyses of Stops After /s/ in English, BA thesis, supervisor: Zoltán G. Kiss
Emese Kertész, Dyslexic Language Learners in Hungarian School Education, MA thesis, supervisor: Enikő Öveges
Petra Kovács, How Native Language Phonology Affects L2 Speech Perception?, BA thesis, supervisor: Ágnes Albert
István Mátyás Mihályi, Aboriginal Land Rights in Australia, BA thesis, supervisor: Cecilia Gall
Boglárka Spissich, How Does Watching Films in English Relate to Secondary School Students’ Listening Comprehension Skills and Oral Task Performance?, MA thesis, supervisor: Ágnes Albert
winners in 2019
Ramóna Bene, Cooperation in the EFL Classroom, MA thesis, supervisor: Margit Szesztay
Flóra Anna Hegyi, Comparing Comparatives: Differences and Similarities of Comparative Constructions in English and Hungarian, BA thesis, supervisor: Krisztina Szécsényi
Máté Péter Kandikó, The Role of Feedback in the Development of Academic Writing Skills of L2 Students in Online Courses, BA thesis, supervisor: Nóra Németh Tartsayné
Sára Kákonyi, Alleviating Anxiety, MA thesis, supervisor: Éva Szabó
Zsófia Panna Papp, Military Veterans in United States Society, BA thesis, supervisor: Réka Fehér
Laura Seben, The Comparison of American and Hungarian Cultures Based on Hofstede’s Model and the Accounts of Americans Living in Hungary , BA thesis, supervisor: Ildikó Lázár
Imola Dalma Terbócs, Multicultural London: Migrant Identitites in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and Andrea Levy’s Small Island, MA thesis, supervisor: Judit Friedrich
Boglárka Fanni Tóth, The Syntax of English News Headlines: A Truncation Approach, BA thesis, supervisor: Marcel den Dikken
Luxi Xu, The Features of Modernism in Dystopian Films, BA thesis, supervisor: Zsolt Czigányik
Anna Zólyomi, The Role of Explicit and Implicit Learning Processes and Language Aptitude in the Success of Foreign Language Acquisition, MA thesis, supervisor: Ágnes Albert
winners in 2018
Nikolett Józsika, An Unlikely Public Idol: Bernard Spilsbury and the Derailment of Criminal Justice 1910–1947, BA thesis, supervisor: Miklós Lojkó
Sergei Kuzeev, “They Don’t Represent Us”: Visual Activism in the Contemporary U.S., MA thesis, supervisor: Zsófia Bán
Nóra Pethő, The Merchant of Venice from a Legal Point of View, MA thesis, supervisor: Géza Kállay/Márta Hargitai
Alexandra Pék, The Use of Podcasts for Language Development, MA thesis, supervisor: Éva Szabó
Mónika Riesenberger, Representation of Aboriginal Identity in the Works of Jack Davis, MA thesis, supervisor: Cecília Gall
Veronika Szarka, The Influence of U.S. Foreign Policy on Korean Immigration to the United States, BA thesis, supervisor: Éva Eszter Szabó
Jamil Toptsi, The Impact of Digital Media Use on the L2 Motivational Self System, MA thesis, supervisor: Kata Csizér
Kitti Udvardy, Konglish: English Incorporated into Korean, BA thesis, supervisor: Andrea Thurmer
Balázs Ziaja, The Process of Language Acquisition and Attrition in Child and Adult Learners, BA thesis, supervisor: Ágnes Albert
winners in 2017
Szonja Dávid, Game of Feminism: The Portrayal of Women in the Game of Thrones, BA thesis, supervisor: Hegyi Pál
Gergő Fekete, Fostering a Global Mindset in the English Classroom: A Case Study Using the Film “Girl Rising”, MA thesis, supervisor: Szesztay Margit
Szilvia Janik, Situation-specific Influences on L2 Learners’ Willingness to Communicate, BA thesis, supervisor: Piniel Katalin
Janka Kovács, “Ye are underlings, underlings, and must be obedient”: The Representations of Disorderly Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Literature, MA thesis, supervisor: Pikli Natália
Dorottya Márton, In Search of a 19th Century Utopia: Comparing Bellamy and Morris, BA thesis, supervisor: Farkas Ákos
Kinga Nagy, Education Policy in Australia: The Gonski Report, BA thesis, supervisor: Gall Cecília
Dávid Papp, High School Students’ Attitudes toward Lifelong Language Learning, MA thesis, supervisor: Öveges Enikő
Gergely Stemmer, A Comparative Analysis of Summary Teaching Methods, BA thesis, supervisor: Tankó Gyula
Bence Szrogh, US–Colombian Relations and the War on Drugs, BA thesis, supervisor: Szabó Éva Eszter
Eszter Törék, Time, the Fair Youth, and the Poet: The Question of Eternality in the Sonnets of William Shakespeare, BA thesis, supervisor: Csikós Dóra
winners in 2016
Nóra Beregi, Informal Ways of Autonomous English Language Development in the Hungarian Context, BA thesis, supervisor: Zsolt Király
Alexandra Bihari, The Legacy of E. H. Carr and his Twenty Years’ Crisis in International Relations, BA thesis, supervisor: Miklós Lojkó
Fruzsina Fónagy, Women in Sports and the Treatment of Female Athletes in the United States of America, MA thesis, supervisor: Stanley A. Ward
Kitti Horváth, The Impact of Colonisation on Australian Aboriginal Languages, BA thesis, supervisor: Cecília Gall
Dominika Káli, The Predicitve Value of Proficiency Testing, BA thesis, supervisor: Gergely Dávid
Mátyás Bence Lagos Cortes, Complementisers in the English Language: The Distribution of the CP Projection, BA thesis, supervisor: Mark Newson
Ádám Lajtai, Analyzing B2 Language Exam Reading Subtests, MA thesis, supervisor: Brigitta Dóczi
Loránd Papp, Investigating Advanced Learners’ Language Anxiety Using an Idiodynamic Approach, MA thesis, supervisor: Katalin Piniel
Péter Simon, The Influence of Far Right and Libertarian Politics on US Economy, BA thesis, supervisor: Stanley A. Ward
Dóra Szirtes, The Benefits of Developing Summarisation Skills, BA thesis, supervisor: Gyula Tankó
Csilla Tatár, A Semantic Analysis of English Cataphoric Constructions, MA thesis, supervisor: Péter Mekis
Noémi Zimonyi, Legislation on the Theatres in Elizabethan London, MA thesis, supervisor: Andrea Velich
winners in 2015
Noémi Csuka, New Conceptions of Canadian Values: Changing Immigration Policy (2008–2015), BA thesis, supervisor: János Kenyeres
Fanni Fekete-Nagy, Hidden Narratives in Medbh McGuckian’s Poetry, BA thesis, supervisor: Eglantina Remport
Beáta Gubacsi, Sun Goddesses: The Representation of the Female Artist in A. S. Byatt’s Novels, MA thesis, supervisor: Judit Friedrich
Ildikó Hoffer, One-to-one Teaching and Learning in Practice: How/Why to Adapt Materials and Tasks to Students’ Needs and Learning Styles, MA thesis, supervisor: Magdolna Kimmel
Ágota Konyicska-Székely, Deaf Students Learning English as a Foreign Language in Europe: An Overview, BA thesis, supervisor: Edit Kontra
Izabella Menczer, Focus, Definiteness and Relative Clauses in There-sentences, BA thesis, supervisor: Mark Newson
Anna Málnási Csizmadia, Why English? English as a Foreign Language for Students with Special Needs, BA thesis, supervisor: Ágnes Enyedi
Kornél Mihály Szabó, The Role of the United States Behind the Change of Regime in the Soviet Union, MA thesis, supervisor: Éva Eszter Szabó
Tünde Szalay, L Darkening in Morpheme-Final Environments: All ’ell Breaking Loose, MA thesis, supervisor: Zoltán Kiss
Dalma Szentpály, Coming of Age As a Woman in a Contemporary American Young Adult Adaptation of a Grimms’ Tale: “Speech-gifts,” Storytelling, and Gender in Shannon Hale’s Young Adult Novelization of the Grimms’ “The Goose-Girl”, MA thesis, supervisor: Enikő Bollobás
Ágota Szűcs, The Summary Writing Processes of First Year EFL Learner BA Students, MA thesis, supervisor: Gyula Tankó
Zsombor Apród Váczi, Group Learning vs. One-to-one Learning: Students in the Spotlight, BA thesis, supervisor: Magdolna Kimmel
winners in 2014
Ákos Csernák, The Bilingual Aphasia (BAT) system: Its use and future directions, BA thesis, supervisor: Illés Éva
Ádám Gyarmati, The strange case of Schwa the Intruder and Schwa the Outcast: Schwa epenthesis and schwa elision in English and Dutch, BA thesis, supervisor: Ádám Nádasdy
Barbara Koskó, “With a Faery, Hand in Hand”: The Appearance of Fairies and Folklore in Victorian Literature, BA thesis, supervisor: Dóra Csikós
Janka Kovács, “What art thou, thou idle ceremony?” The Funeral Representation of Elizabeth I (1558–1603), BA thesis, supervisor: Andrea Velich
Márton Kucsera, English restrictive relative clauses in Optimality Theory, MA thesis, supervisor: Marianna Hordós
Zsolt Mártha, Project Tableau — Project in the Secondary Classroom, BEd thesis, supervisor: Magdolna Kimmel
András Páli, The representation of Australia’s war-time contribution on screen and in fiction, MA thesis, supervisor: Cecilia Gall
Dávid Pápai, Resisting Normative Power: Foucault, Herculine Barbin and Counter-Memory, MA thesis, supervisor: Andrea Timár
Júlia Sipos, Victimized women in Toni Morrison’s fiction: Overcoming the victim mentality in “Paradise”, BA thesis, supervisor: Vera Benczik
Tamás István Soproni, Pacific Solution: The most controversial immigration policy of the 2000s, MA thesis, supervisor: Cecilia Gall
Orsolya Sudár, Places of Identity: Reading sites of trauma in New York between the 1880s and the 1930s, MA thesis, supervisor: Zsófia Bán
Renáta Szenes, The translation of culture-related expressions in news discourse: a comparative analysis of corpus-based research, BA thesis, supervisor: Krisztina Károly
Anna Talhammer, The role of Information and Communication Technologies in language acquisition, BA thesis, supervisor: Magdolna Kimmel
Anne Teravainen, Motivation, self-regulation and autonomous learning behaviour in an EFL context, MA thesis, supervisor: Katalin Wein Csizér
Dóra Vecsernyés, “We’re a narrative animal, aren’t we?”: Remembrance in the Fiction of Julian Barnes, MA thesis, supervisor: Judit Friedrich
winners in 2013
Éva Viktória Apáti Nagy, Medical Practice in Early Modern England: Surgery in the 16th and 17th Centuries, MA thesis, supervisor: Andrea Velich
Ágnes Benkő, The Role of Markedness in Phonological Theory, MA thesis, supervisor: Miklós Törkenczy
Zsuzsanna Czifra, Ethics and Narrative in Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing, MA thesis, supervisor: Andrea Timár
Gergő Fekete, First Language Attrition in Bilingual Speakers: The Influence of Non-linguistic Factors, BA thesis, supervisor: Ágnes Albert
Zsófia Gregor, Multicultural Archetypes: The Intersection of Cultures in Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine, MA thesis, supervisor: Enikő Bollobás
Beáta Gubacsi, William Blake’s Influence on Salman Rushdie’s Novel The Satanic Verses, BA thesis, supervisor: Judit Friedrich
Veronika Hegedűs, The Uncanny in Faulkner’s Southern Gothic: An Analysis of The Sound and the Fury, BA thesis, supervisor: Éva Federmayer
Márton Jánosy, Pre-L Breaking in English: Dark-L Influence on the Preceding Vowel, BA thesis, supervisor: Ádám Nádasdy
Evelyn Kardos, Metaphorical Thought in Culture and Translation: A Comparative Analysis of English and Hungarian, BA thesis, supervisor: Krisztina Károly
Emese Kolozsvári, Negative Effects of the L2 German on the Acquisition of English as L3, MA thesis, supervisor: Christopher Ryan
Berbadett Molics, The effects of L2 on L1 in bilingual highschools, BA thesis, supervisor: Christopher Ryan
Simon Ness, The Relationship between Motivation, Self-efficacy and Foreign Language Anxiety: An Investigation of Non-native English Teachers, MA thesis, supervisor: Kata Csizér
Magdolna Pongor, Cultural Differences between the English and the French: The Discrepancy of Values as Reflected in Everyday Life, BA thesis, supervisor: Magdolna Halápi
Christine Sáfián, Native American Experience and the Development of the United States: The Causes of Population Decline, MA thesis, supervisor: Éva Eszter Szabó
Csilla Tatár, A Posteriori Fall: Representations of the Fall in Blake’s Songs, BA thesis, supervisor: Zsolt Komáromy
winners in 2012
Júlia Bosnyák, Task complexity and narrative writing performance: The effect of proficiency, MA thesis, supervisor: Ágnes Albert
Dávid Katona, Nonlinearity in Dead-Tree Literature, MA thesis, supervisor: Judit Friedrich
Dorottya Kiss, Britain in the 1970s through the work of Pink Floyd, BA thesis, supervisor: Ágnes Enyedi
Márton Kucsera, Participial Constructions in English, BA thesis, supervisor: Marianna Hordós
Tamás Káldi, A Comparative Analysis of the Information Structure of Hungarian and English Sentences, MA thesis, supervisor: Lajos Marosán
Eszter Lendvai, Francis Bacon’s Theory of Matter, MA thesis, supervisor: Andrea Velich
Lívia Marián, The Megachurch Phenomenon in the American Society: The Marketing of Religion in the United States, MA thesis, supervisor: Ryan James
András Szuromi, Tudor Economic Problems: The Price Revolution of the 16th Century, BA thesis, supervisor: Andrea Velich
winners in 2011
Orsolya Aporfi, Common Problems of the Integration of Technology into the English Language Classroom in Secondary School, BA thesis, supervisor: Mark Andrews
Réka Dorottya Fehér, Lobbyists’ Role in Lawmark, BA thesis, supervisor: Stanley Ward
Anna Kőszeghy, How Can We Know the Dancer from the Dance? The Solitary Fascism of William Butler Yeats, MA thesis, supervisor: Ferencz Győző
Júlia Laki, Renaissance Metaphors of the Body: The Verbal Construction of Marginal Bodily States in William Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece and John Donne’s Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, BA thesis, supervisor: Csikós Dóra
Mária Manninger, Typical Hungarian Mistakes in the Pronunciation of English Vowels: Mispronunciation Caused by the Different Vowel Inventories and Rules in the Two Languages, BA thesis, supervisor: Törkenczy Miklós
Judit Molnár, The Importance of Motivation in Language Learning: A Study on the Motivational Profiles of High-Achieving Students, BA thesis, supervisor: Zsolt Király
Dóra Takács, Foreign Language Anxiety and the Process of Becoming an English Teacher: A Qualitative Study, MA thesis, supervisor: Brózik-Piniel Katalin
Zsófia Varga, In Defence of Universal Grammar: A Synthesis of Results from First and Second Language Acquisition Studies, BA thesis, supervisor: Tamási J. Gergely
Janina Vesztergom, “And I Choose Never to Stoop”: Focalisation and Diegesis in Robert Browning’s Complementary Dramatic Monologues, MA thesis, supervisor: Csikós Dóra
winners in 2010
Gergely Péter Dorozsmai, A Deconstructive Reading of Iris Murdoch’s Narrative Fiction (Interpretation from the Viewpoint of Narratology and Deconstruction), MA thesis, supervisor: Géza Kállay
Judit Jankó-Brezovay, The Making of a Hero: Ned Kelly and Jesse James, MA thesis, supervisor: Cecilia Gall
Andrea Juranovszky, The Carnivalesque in Anne Rice’s Fiction: Carnivalesque Elements and Characters in Interview with the Vampire, MA thesis, supervisor: Éva Federmayer
László Kajtár, Huxley’s Eyeless in Gaza: The Role of Time and Narrative in the Depiction of Personality, BA thesis, supervisor: Ákos Farkas
Csilla Kisfaludi, The Relevance of Female Politicians in the last U.S. Presidential Elections: Gender vs. Political Ideology, BA thesis, supervisor: Magdolna Kimmel
Luca Lídia Kovács, Hassidism and the Holocaust: Intersecting Narratives of Memory in Elie Wiesel’s Fictions, BA thesis, supervisor: Enikő Bollobás
Emese Lipécz, The English Ditransitive Construction in Different Theoretical Frameworks, BA thesis, supervisor: Marosán Lajos
Emese Pozdena, Foreign Business Presentations through the Eyes of Business People, MA thesis, supervisor: Rachel Appleby
Andrea Schremm, Controversial Issues around the Critical Period Hypothesis, BA thesis, supervisor: Adrienn Menyhárt
Mátyás Szabó, The Impact of Post-World-War-II Immigration on Australian Legislation, BA thesis, supervisor: Dorottya Holló
winners in 2009
Vivien Boronyák, American Radical Theater in the Sixties: Its Sociopolitical Circumstances and Theatrical Traditions, MA thesis, supervisor: Enikő Bollobás
Péter Koncz, The Motif of Quest in the Four Works of the Pearl-Manuscript: Quest and Discovery in Pearl, MA thesis, supervisor: Katalin Halácsy
Attila Mráz, Narrative and Ethics: The Role and Place of Moral Perception in Reading Narrative Fiction in Martha C. Nussbaum’s Love’s Knowledge, MA thesis, supervisor: Judit Friedrich
Veronika Murár, Coping with Foreign Language Anxiety, MA thesis, supervisor: Katalin Brózik-Piniel
Márta Mátrai, Language Use of Children in Bilingual Families, MA thesis, supervisor: Ágnes Enyedi
Beatrix Price, The Formative Years in EFL Teaching: Movement Accompanied Language-Learning, MA thesis, supervisor: Margit Szesztay
Márton Sóskuthy, Why R? An Alternative Look at Intrusive-R in English, MA thesis, supervisor: Ádám Nádasdy
winners in 2008
Ágota Baráth, “Do you mean me?” Self-Representation in Jean Rhys’ Writings, MA thesis, supervisor: Szalay Krisztina
Zsófia Gyarmathy, The Palatal Contrast Within the Framework of Phonetically-Based Phonology, MA thesis, supervisor: Bárkányi Zsuzsanna
Zsuzsanna Horváth, The Hungarian and English Reception of the 21st-century Booker Prize Winner Novels, MA thesis, supervisor: Friedrich Judit
Enikő Strider, Contrastive Analysis of Expert Feedback on Student Writing as Perceived by EFL Teachers and Students, MA thesis, supervisor: Tankó Gyula
Pál Sárik, Factors of Motivation in Adult Education, MA thesis, supervisor: Ryan Christopher
winners in 2007
Orsolya Jánosházi, Second Language Acquisition and Group Dynamics: An Empirical Investigation, MA thesis, supervisor: Csizér Kata
Beatrix Kalocsai, Instructions in the English Language Class, MA thesis, supervisor: Dávid Gergely
Vili Oskari Maunula, Case Marking, Agreement and Word Order, MA thesis, supervisor: Mark Newson
Katalin Szalay, The Importance of the Frontier in Shaping American Democracy Between 1803–1860, MA thesis, supervisor: Magyarics Tamás
Márta Vajnági, Great Britain and the Habsburg Monarchy in the Eighteenth Century: Imperial Election, 1745, MA thesis, supervisor: Kontler László
winners in 2006
Beatrix Balogh, Island or Mainland — The Puerto Rico Paradox, MA thesis, supervisor: Frank Tibor
Csilla Buzás, A Grave New World: The Comparative Analysis of Two Dystopian Novels by Huxley and Orwell, BA thesis, supervisor:
Éva Katalin Dékány, The English Cleft Construction, MA thesis, supervisor: Bartos Huba
Anna Frenyó, The Mechanisms of Memory in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Fiction, MA thesis, supervisor: Friedrich Judit
Gabriella Jenei, The Contribution of Reference and Co-reference to Cohesion, MA thesis, supervisor: Károly Krisztina
Ágnes Lapos, Motivating Teenagers by Attractive Activities, BA thesis, supervisor: Szesztay Margit
Victoria Maria Nagy, One Leader and His Movement: Jeff Kennett and the Resurgence of the State of Victoria in Australia, MA thesis, supervisor: Lojkó Miklós
Brigitta Palotásné Tornyai, Raising a Child Bilingually, BA thesis, supervisor: Uwe Pohl
winners in 2005
Ágnes Fellner, Blake and the Bible:The Concept of Good and Evil Mirrored in the Figures of Satan and the Devils as Seen by William Blake Compared to their Representations in the Bible, MA thesis, supervisor: Kenyeres János
Gabriella Éva Guth, Towards Authority as a Beginner Teacher, BA thesis, supervisor: Christopher Ryan
Bálint Gárdos, Byron and Tradition: Pope and Byron’s Reinstatement in Romanticism, MA thesis, supervisor: Péter Ágnes
András Imrényi, Interrogative and Negative Inversion in English and Hungarian from the Perspective of Optimality Theory, MA thesis, supervisor: Mark Newson
Sarolta Kőrösmezei, Postmodern Elements in the Enderby-Tetralogy, BA thesis, supervisor: Farkas Ákos
Anna Risbjerg, Dealing with the Problems of False Friends in the Classroom, BA thesis, supervisor: Varga György
Ágnes Sarkadi, Dyslexia and Achieving Success in Studying English as a Foreign Language, MA thesis, supervisor: Kormos Judit
Renáta Schiffrich, Motivating Students through Game-like Activities, BA thesis, supervisor: Uwe Pohl
Péter Sándor, (Beach)heading: From Dieppe to Normandy: U.S. and Canadian War Efforts in Europe, MA thesis, supervisor: Frank Tibor
winners in 2004
Orsolya Barabás, Critical discourse analysis of British news programs: Language and ideology, MA thesis, supervisor: Reményi Andrea
Éva Gyetvai, The aesthetics of self-reliance in Toni Morrison’s novel, Sula, MA thesis, supervisor: Bollobás Enikő
Katalin Juhász, The author as his own translator: Nabokov’s Lolita in English and Russian, MA thesis, supervisor: Géher István
Erika Konya, Catering for individual differences in learners, BA thesis, supervisor: Magyarics Péter
Mária Molnár, Endeavors of American and Hungarian legislature to fight racial discrimination, BA thesis, supervisor: Molnár Miklós
Gizella Nagy, WH-questions in Optimality Theory, MA thesis, supervisor: Newson, Mark
Judit Szász, Critic and artist: A reappraisal of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, MA thesis, supervisor: Sarbu Aladár
Ibolya Taylorné Szakáll, Classroom management, BA thesis, supervisor: Pohl, Uwe
winners in 2003
Vera Angyal, Drama Techniques in Communicative Language Teaching: The Use of Role-Plays in Developing Classroom Dynamics, BA thesis, supervisor: Sillár Barbara
Anita Brkanić, Croatian Immigration to the USA: The Bond Between Two Homelands, MA thesis, supervisor: Magyarics Tamás
Zsuzsa Kertész, Stratifying the Lexicon, MA thesis, supervisor: Törkenczy Miklós
Dorottya Mária Kárpáti, Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Deaf Learners, MA thesis, supervisor: Kontra Edit
Borbála Németh, Linton Kwesi Johnson: The “Revolutionary” Poet. His Works and Accomplishments in the Field of Carribean-British Poetry, MA thesis, supervisor: Ferencz Győző
Eszter Ormos, Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Dyslexic Children, MA thesis, supervisor: Kormos Judit
Eszter Rostás, A Drama Project: Creating a Christmas Preformance in a Secondary English Classroom, BEd thesis, supervisor: Walkó Zsuzsa
Judit Szakács, Education of Minorities in Australia and in Hungary, MA thesis, supervisor: Gall Cecília
winners in 2002
Márta Abrusán, Interfaces of Syntax, MA thesis, supervisor: É. Kiss Katalin
Boglárka Hegedűs, Applying an Achievement Test in the English Language Class, BEd thesis, supervisor: Dávid Gergely
Esztella Kolosa, Group Dynamics — Trying to Improve the Relationships in a Secondary Language Classroom, BEd thesis, supervisor: Christopher Ryan
László Munteán, The Metamorphosis of the Symbol: The Physics of Space in Charles Olson’s Early Poetry, MA thesis, supervisor: Bollobás Enikő
Veronika Ruttkay, Samuel Taylor Coleridges Lectures on Hamlet, MA thesis, supervisor: Péter Ágnes
Andrea Timár, Withdrawal Symptoms in Coleridge’s Poetry and Prose: A Comparative Analysis of Effusion XXXV and Biographia Literaria, MA thesis, supervisor: Péter Ágnes
Andrea Vona, The Reasons for and the Effects of the Use of the Mother Tongue among Elementary Learners of English, MA thesis, supervisor: Holló Dorottya
winners in 2001
Henrik Tamás Csepreghy, A Psychoanalytic Approach to Shakespeare: Macbeth through Lacan, MA thesis, supervisor: Kállay Géza
Zsuzsanna Czikai, The Potential of Project Work: Making a Class Magazine with Elementary Students of English, BEd thesis, supervisor: Uwe Pohl
Andrea Kirchknopf, A Comparative Analisys of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Heinrich von Kleist’s Der Findling, MA thesis, supervisor: Péter Ágnes
Gabriella László, A Revolution of Thought or Classical Theories “Recycled”?, MA thesis, supervisor: Magyarics Tamás
Gergely Lukácsi, Following Up on the Consequences of the Mental Representation of Linguistic Information on Human Language Production, MA thesis, supervisor: Kormos Judit
Rita Nobik Nagy, Face and Mask in Eugene O’Neill’s Selected Plays, MA thesis, supervisor: Egri Péter
Anna Sebestyén, Role-plays with Blind and Partially-Sighted Students: Developing Fluency, MA thesis, supervisor: Miklósy Katalin
Attila Starčević, Syllable-Initial Consonant Clusters in English and Croatian: A Melodic View on Laryngeal and Floating Elements, MA thesis, supervisor: Szigetvári Péter
winners in 2000
Gábor Berczeli, British Power and Policy Making in the Gold Coast of West Africa: The Origins nad Rise of Informal Empire, MA thesis, supervisor: Máthé László
Szilvia Csábi, The War of Independence: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach, MA thesis, supervisor: Kövecses Zoltán
Tamás Eitler, Tendencies in Late Old English and Middle English Syntax, MA thesis, supervisor: Farkas Judit
Tünde Pukyné Hegedűs, Pictorial Parables of Literary Inspiration: W. H. Hunt’s Moral Pictures Based on Literature, MA thesis, supervisor: Péteri Éva
Júlia Romhányi, The Role of Language Transfer in Learning Hungarian as a Second Language: The Case of English and Finnish Learners of Hungarian, MA thesis, supervisor: Kormos Judit
Tünde Varga, Deconstruction, Literary Theory and Practice: The Notion of Irony in Paul de Man’s Literary Theory, MA thesis, supervisor: Federmayer Éva
Gyöngyi Veller, Plays for Ireland: Artistic Methods for Presenting the Troubles in Northern Ireland in Stewart Parker’s Plays, MA thesis, supervisor: Mesterházi Márton
Eszter Veszelinov, Working in Small Groups in a Class of 15-year-old Intermediate Students, BEd thesis, supervisor: Medgyes Péter
winners in 1999
Attila Ármos, Developing Speaking Skills: Factors Influencing Success in a Secondary School Context, BEd thesis, supervisor: Szesztay Margit
Bernadett Czárl, The Situation of Students on the Periphery of Pairwork, MA thesis, supervisor: Németh Nóra
Péter Dolmányos, Present Buried in the Past: The Bog Poems of Seamus Heaney, MA thesis, supervisor: Ferencz Győző
Eszter Klatsmányi, Efficient Methods for the Teaching of Written Translation, MA thesis, supervisor: Károly Krisztina
Anna Kürti, Phonotactic Constraints and Vowel–Zero Alternations in English, MA thesis, supervisor: Törkenczy Miklós
Bálint Török, The Role and Position of the IRA in the Northern Irish Troubles, MA thesis, supervisor: Mark Andrews
Gabriella Varga, The Struggle for Identity in Afro-American Literature, MA thesis, supervisor: Federmayer Éva
winners in 1998
Szilvia Barta, Anticipations of the Theatre of the Absurd in W. B. Yeats’s plays, MA thesis, supervisor: Sarbu Aladár
Csaba Kertész-Farkas, Developing Cultural Awareness in ELT at Elementary Level, BEd thesis, supervisor: Dávid Gergely
Andrea Révész, Subject Positions in English, MA thesis, supervisor: Bartos Huba
Katalin Serény, Teaching Language and Culture with Comparative and Contrastive Methods, MA thesis, supervisor: Holló Dorottya
Ágnes Szakolczai, Place and the Self: Expatriation in Christina Stead’s For Love Alone and Jessica Anderson’s Tirra Lirra by the River, MA thesis, supervisor: Jakabfi Anna
winners in 1997 (partial list)
Csaba Csides, The Special Status of /r/ in RP, MA thesis, supervisor: Ádám Nádasdy
Szabolcs Gollob, The Low Vowels in the English Language, MA thesis, supervisor: Ádám Nádasdy