Dr. Csaba Szabo

Biography

Csaba Szabo is a lecturer in Language Education at the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh. He specializes in TESOL, Applied Linguistics, and Language Education, with specific interests in vocabulary learning, teaching and assessment in multilingual contexts, emotion vocabulary testing, and language assessment in English-medium instruction. Szabo is committed to promoting the practical impact of research and evidence-informed teaching, aiming for high-quality student experiences. Previously, he worked as an assistant professor at the University of Nottingham Malaysia, where he also served as the Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange at the School of Education. Szabo has contributed significantly to developing quantitative literacy skills for education and language students in both Malaysia and the UK. He became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2020 and regularly publishes and reviews articles in leading journals such as System and International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. He presents at international conferences and has collaborated with experts across various disciplines. Szabo has successfully secured local and international grants for his research, focusing on vocabulary acquisition and testing, and the factors affecting learning participation in diverse educational settings.

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