SUUPER – J. Selye University and University of Pécs English Roundtable

Organized by the Department of Modern Philology,

Faculty of Education, J. Selye University

Conference Centre of JSU – Komárno, November 8-9, 2016

Head of Programme Committee: Dr. habil. Irén Hegedűs, PhD.

Members of Programme Committee:

PaedDr. Puskás Andrea, PhD.

Dr. habil. Győri Gábor, PhD.

PaedDr. Zolczer Péter

Head of Organizing Committee: PaedDr. Puskás Andrea, PhD.

Members of Organizing Committee:

Dr. habil. Horváth Kinga, PhD., Dean of the Faculty of Education, JSU

Dr. habil. Hegedűs Irén, PhD.

Dr. habil. Szőköl István, PhD. Vice Dean of the Faculty of Education, JSU

Dr. habil. Vajda Barnabás, PhD. Vice Dean of the Faculty of Education, JSU

Conference Programme

November 8 (Tuesday)

14:10-14:30 – Opening

Session 1 (Chair: Hegedűs Irén)

14:30-15:00 – Zolczer Péter (UJS): Improving learner autonomy with techniques used by polyglots

15:00-15:30 – Szamosi Gertrud (UP): Making a difference: Literature of the Hungarian diaspora in Canada

15:30-16:00 – Győri Gábor (UP): Basic level categories and linguistic relativity

16:00-16:30 – Coffee break

Session 2 (Chair: Litovkina Anna)

16:30-17:00 – Hartvig Gabriella (UP): Recent scholarship on the eighteenth-century novel

17:00-17:30 – Csikai Zsuzsa (UP): Russian short fiction into Irish monologue drama

November 9 (Wednesday)

Session 3 (Chair: Zolczer Péter )

9:00 - 9:30 – Horváth József (UP): Learner corpora in EFL language education: Twenty years of the JPU Corpus

9:30-10:00 – Litovkina Anna (UJS): “Give a girl enough rope and she’ll ring the wedding bell”: The nature of girls as revealed through Anglo-American anti-proverbs

10:00-10:30 – Puskás Andrea (UJS): Gender (re)visions in audio-visual media: Gender representation in American sitcoms

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

Session 4 (Chair: Horváth József )

11:00-11:30 – Sári B. László (UP): Literature meets the financial crisis: DeLillo's Cosmopolis

11:30-12:00 – Hegedűs Irén (UP-UJS): The lexicological relevance of doublets

12:00-12:30 – Marosi Renáta (UJS): Great mothers in the Banks family: Aspects of the mother archetype in the Mary Poppins novels

12:30-13:00 Closing