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= the Outstanding Thesis Award

Every summer SEAS selects a small number of
[[http://seas.elte.hu/seas/theses.pl|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
[[http://seas.elte.hu/overseas|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