Chapter event - ELTE Alumni Academy: Life Long Learning training series

Last year, ELTE launched ELTE Alumni Academy, which is organized by the International Alumni Chapter. The International Alumni Chapter is planning various (currently online) series of events within the framework of ELTE Alumni Academy. All of the events are going to be held in English. Some of these online events will be available to anyone interested, while others will be designed specifically for international alumni members at ELTE.

The second series of events, the training series titled “Life Long Learning” started in November 2021. In this series, the International Alumni Chapter organizes career trainings held by professors from ELTE, specifically for international alumni members of the University and anyone interested. The trainings were made possible with support from the ELTE Alumni Centre.

On 10 November, Dr. Brigitta Dóczi, Assistant Professor held the first lecture of the series. Brigitta Dóczi works at the Faculty of Humanities of ELTE. She teaches at the Department of English Applied Linguistics, where she offers courses in vocabulary research, business English, media, and academic skills. Her research interests are second language vocabulary development as well as task-based language teaching. Recently, she has been doing research on the role of verbal and visual modalities in fine arts education, resulting in the publication of a specialized bilingual art dictionary as well as participating in a large-scale study investigating English language teaching in Hungarian secondary schools.

Dr. Brigitta Dóczi discussed the following topic during her training: “Creating and delivering effective presentations in English”. The aim of the interactive workshop was for the participants to master and practice the basics of creating a presentation in English. First, the basics of creating effective presentations were presented and discussed, such as material selection, slideshow structure and layout, inserting references, displaying individual slides, data visualization, as well as the use of various slide creator software and templates. In the second part, the focus was on the presentation itself, during which the Professor talked about preparation, body language, and the importance of scheduling our time.

Dr. Brigitta Dóczi’s presentation

The second training on 16 February was held by Gabriella Kassa, Counselling Psychologist and Trainer, and Patrik Németh, Training Coordinator, both working at ELTE’s Career Center. Gabriella Kassa has been working at the Career Center for six years, and she also has many years of experience with other career counseling clients, therefore she has seen many career paths over the years. Patrik Németh has been participating in the career trainings for two years, and has recruitment experience, as well.

In their training, Gabriella Kassa and Patrik Németh focused on the following topic: “Job interview training - How to succeed at job interviews”. Participants could learn the following during the course:

• how to prepare for a job interview,
• how to create a positive impression,
• how to answer the different types of questions –strategies on how to deal with them,
• to develop an understanding of different types of interviews, from telephone and video interviews, non-standard interviews, and how to tackle them,
• what are the new trends in interview techniques,
• and participants could get answers to their specific questions in connection with these topics.

László Katona, Assistant Professor held the second third training in the series on 25 April. László Katona is a teacher in English Language and Literature as well as Chemistry. He is a Senior Lecturer at the School of English and American Studies of ELTE. His major scope of research is applied linguistics (language in the media and foreign language applied theatre) and audiovisual translation. 
The topic of László Katona’s lecture was the following - “Perspectives in social media”. The Assistant Professor’s lecture showed the various connotations of visual and audiovisual communication based on different perspectives. László Katona discussed fake news, disinformation and the way of fighting it as well as understanding different connotations of the same message.

You can watch the Assistant Professor’s lecture here.