Puskás Orsolya – Music as a Means of Raising EFL Learner’s Cultural Awareness (Part 2)

After having analysed a great amount of literature about the characteristics of culture, cultural awareness and music as a useful teaching tool, I felt that it is worth investigating the topic from different points of view: the teachers’ opinions about the importance of learning culture and integrating culture into the foreign language classroom, and ways…

Wikipedia Shakespeare Edit-a-thon 2016

Shakespeare and Wikipedia. Two words which belong to highly different circles of learning, while Wikipedia is often mentioned on the blacklist of most teachers, Shakespeare belongs to the highest spheres of learning. Yet, the Hungarian Shakespeare Committee is enthusiastic about bringing Shakespeare into the digital world for Hungarian readers and providing a safe source for…

Fejes Tóth Petra – Christmas Party 2015

As older students probably know, December marks one of the most enjoyable events of the English Institute, which is the annual Christmas Party. This year it was held on 9 December, at Horánszky Street. Probably it was because of the new venue that the number of guests was surprisingly low, since the Christmas Party is…

Nemes Zsolt – Editathon

Hungarian Wikipedia is far behind its western counterparts, especially the English Wikipedia. Its articles are still few, often too short, and badly written, especially those written on topics, which are not directly linked to Hungarian culture, not to mention the numerous gaps in this nexus, the inexistent articles about topics that should be dealt with.It…