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Eniko Csomay, Interim Associate Dean

Dr. Eniko Csomay has been a faculty member at SDSU since 2002. A native of Hungary, she obtained her B.A. in English Language and Literature from Eötvös University in Budapest in 1991 and finished her M.A. in Applied Linguistics in 1993 from the University of Reading (U.K.). After her studies in England, she returned to Hungary and continued to work as a teacher educator at the Centre for English Teacher Training at Eötvös University. She moved to the United States in 1999 and completed her Ph.D. at Northern Arizona University in Applied Linguistics in 2002.

As an applied linguist, she has written several research papers for collections such as the Georgetown Round Table on Language and Linguistics, a prestigious series published by Georgetown University Press. She has published articles in international journals, for example, in Linguistics and Education and in the Journal of English for Academic Purposes. She gives presentations of her research at annual conferences, informing colleagues in her field about her latest findings.

In her current research, she continues to apply data-driven approaches to text processing and corpus-based methods to text analysis, and remains interested in analyzing classroom discourse. In her latest work, she reports on ways in which teachers use language differently from students in varying disciplines and levels of instruction in a university setting. She has also documented turn-taking patterns in university classes and how they relate to teacher talk versus student talk.

Dr. Csomay was awarded multiple international fellowships and scholarships, among which the most competitive ones were two Soros Research Fellowships (Soros-Oxford Fellows, United Kingdom 1990-91, and Nijmegen, the Netherlands 1993), a British Council Fellowship to complete her Master’s degree (1992-93), and a Fulbright Scholarship to teach at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona (1995-96). Most recently, during the summer of 2009, she was given a grant to lead workshops for English teachers in Morocco, as an English Language Specialist from the U.S. Department of State, and to deliver a plenary address at an international conference held in Ifrane, Morocco. During the past decade she has worked in other local and international settings as well such as, Chinle and Kayenta (Navajo Reservation) in the United States; Nikšić in Montenegro; Eötvös University (Budapest) and University of Pécs (Pécs) in Hungary; Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur (La Paz) and Escuela Normales (Atlacomulco) in Mexico, and Ecole Normale Superieure and Ministry of Education, Summer Institute (Rabat) in Morocco.

Dr. Csomay served as assessment coordinator at her department (Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages) for four years and was the Chair of CAL’s Curriculum Committee for two years. She is a Senator, representing CAL faculty in the University Senate.







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