About us

HISTORY

In its present form, the Hungarian Association of Applied Linguists and Language Teachers (HAALLT) was established in 1990 as the successor of the National Foreign Language Board operating within the Scientific Educational Council. HAALLT assumes the membership of its predecessor in the International Federation of Language Teacher Associations (Fédération Internationale des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes, FIPLV).

GOALS

The Association aims to motivate and support the cultivation and teaching of Hungarian as a first language and as a foreign language, to promote research in all fields of applied linguistics including research of language usage, language teaching and language learning, and to offer graduate and post-graduate training to language teachers.

The association wishes to represent teachers both in and outside Hungary and advocate for Hungarian applied linguistics and language teaching; it intends to increase awareness of the importance of language learning and teaching throughout Hungarian society. It is committed to employing all available means to widely publish and spread information, documents, periodicals, and proceedings on language learning.

 

Executive board

President

Gábor Prószéky

Vice-Presidents

Ágota Fóris, Judit Hidasi, Krisztina Károly, Kinga Klaudy, Csilla Sárdi

Secretary-General

Réka Sólyom

Bursar

Ildikó Fata

Secretaries

Dániel Mány, Olívia Seidl-Péch

Secretary of Foreign Affairs

Katalin Fogarasi

Supervisory Board

Zoltán Bódi (president), Enikő Benedek, Szilvia Malaczkov

Board members

Edit Andrić, Gábor Annus, Mária Bakti, Szilvia Bátyi, Attila Benő, István Károly Boda, Péter Csatár, István Csűry, Mónika Dóla, Katalin Doró, Ildikó Fata, Márta Fischer, Katalin Fogarasi, Ágota Fóris, Judit Hidasi, Katalin Horváthné Molnár, Ágnes Huszár, Krisztina Károly, Kinga Klaudy, Renáta Kriston, Ágnes Kuna, Ana Lehocki-Samardžić, Szilvia Malaczkov, Dániel Mány, Károly Minya, Orsolya Nádor, Gábor Prószéky, Ildikó Pusztai-Varga, Edina Robin, Csilla Sárdi, Olívia Seidl-Péch, Eszter Sermann, Réka Sólyom, Gizella Szabómihály, Beáta Szép, András Szőllősy-Sebestyén, Dóra Mária Tamás, Klára Veresné Valentinyi, Anita Viszket, Zsuzsa Vladár

Services

Since 2003, the Association has been operating an electronic database of its members and uses an e-mail system to accelerate the exchange of information.

The homepage of the Association (www.manye.hu) provides updated public information targeting both researchers and teachers. The events organised by the Association attract wide professional interest; information on these events and reports on the outcomes are circulated not only among the participants but also made available on the webpage.

The quarterly journal of the Association, Modern Nyelvoktatás (Modern Language Teaching) is available at https://epa.oszk.hu/03100/03139 in Hungarian. It contains accounts and articles on the latest research results in the fields of applied linguistics, language learning and teaching methodology. It also informs the reader about actions carried out to safeguard the interests of applied linguists and language teachers. The journal advances the mission of the Association advocating the importance of language learning.

 

Membership Information

Any linguist or teacher shall be accepted as a regular member of the association who adopts the goals of the Association and expresses their wish to further them. Foreign citizens shall also be accepted as regular members under the same conditions. Applicants shall fill in the membership form available on the homepage of the Association (www.manye.hu).

All members of the Association are entitled and obliged to participate in the work of the General Assembly. The members with a right to vote can propose candidates for the members of the Board.

All members are free to participate in the programmes organised by the Association, to integrate – in accordance with the conditions set by the Association – into the research and educational work of the Association, and to receive the documents and periodicals of the latest scientific results published by the Association.

Members of the Hungarian Association of Applied Linguists and Language Teachers are also the members of FIPLV (Fédération Internationale des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes).

Membership Fee

The membership fee is first due at the time of admission, then annually, before 15 February. Members are invited to participate in the biannual Congress of the Hungarian Association of Applied Linguists and Language Teachers at a reduced registration fee Delayed payments are also accepted. The annual fee is 5000 HUF (20 EUR).

Membership fee from abroad shall be transferred to the following bank account:

ERSTE BANK HUNGARY RT.
IBAN: HU79 1165 4005 0464 0300 5400 0006
SWIFT Code: GIBAHUHB
BIC: 034061

Postal money orders are available at the Secretariat. A receipt for a paid membership fee will be issued after the fee is received. In cases of institutional payment, the Secretariat will provide an invoice. The contact person of the Secretariat is Katalin HUBAY, E-mail: hubay@morphologic.hu

Honorary Membership

On the resolution of the Board of HAALLT adopted in 2004, the Board admits honorary members starting from 2004. According to the statutes, any person who has efficiently contributed to achieving the goals of the Association can become an honorary member. The list of honorary members is as follows: Aladár Szende (2004); György Hell (2005); Tamás Magay (2006); József Hegedűs (2007); László Dezső (2008); László Buday (2009); János S. Petőfi (2010); János Péntek (2011); István Fodor (2012); László Elekfi (2013); Sarolta Simig-Fenyő (2014); Éva Stephanides 2015); György Horlai (2016); Gábor Székely (2017); Erzsébet Cs. Jónás (2018);  Istvánné Borgulya [Vető Ágnes] (2019); Jenő Bárdos (2020); Tamás Váradi (2021); Mária Gósy (2022); Miklós Kontra (2023).

Brassai Sámuel Award

Each year since 1999, HAALLT has been decorating an outstanding expert with Brassai Sámuel award in recognition of their achievement in the field of Applied Linguistics.

The person awarded receives a certificate and a silver medal (which is 70 mm in diameter and 6 mm thick). On the medal, the portrait of Sámuel Brassai is engraved with the dates of his birth and death as designed by László Lugossy, sculptor. The medal is made by Róbert Halmágyi, goldsmith. The person to be awarded is chosen by the Board of the Association voting by ballot from among the candidates nominated by three previously awarded persons. The first person who received the award was Ferenc Papp in 1999. The list of the awarded persons is as follows: György Szépe (2000); Gábor Székely (2001); Kinga Klaudy (2002);  Zsolt Lengyel (2003); Mária Gósy (2004); Gábor Prószéky (2005); Judit Hidasi (2006); Pál Heltai (2007); Jenő Bárdos (2008); István Bakonyi (2009); Erzsébet Cs. Jónás (2010); Zoltán Sturcz (2011); András Szőllősy-Sebestyén (2012); Ágota Fóris (2013); Szergej Tóth (2014); Ádám Kis (2015); Péter Medgyes (2017); Csilla Sárdi (2017); Júlia Dróth (2019); Zsuzsa Kurtán (2021); Orsolya Nádor (2023).

FIPLV International Award

The FIPLV (Fédération Internationale des Professeurs des Langues Vivantes/International Federation of Language Teacher Associations)  International Award is FIPLV’s highest distinction – in addition to the title of Honorary FIPLV Counsellor, which is reserved for (former) members of the FIPLV Executive – and can be awarded to FIPLV members who distinguish or have distinguished themselves by being exceptionally active, innovative, valuable, and talented in one or more fields of language learning and language teaching. The FIPLV International Award consists of a Certificate of Honour and publication on the FIPLV website (fiplv.com) of the candidate’s citation with a picture and congratulations by the FIPLV Executive Committee. Recipients of the award: György Szépe (2007); András Szőllősy-Sebestyén (2017), Judit Hidasi (2023).