UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED
DOCTORAL SCHOOL IN LINGUISTICS
Márta Lesznyák (ORCID: 0000-0002-9354-0633) graduated as a teacher of English and German languages from the University of Szeged, Hungary. She obtained her second MA degree in Education at the University of Sussex. She taught at the Department of Education, at the University of Szeged for more than 10 years, where she also gained experience in translating texts on education, psychology and social sciences. She received her PhD in Applied Linguistics/Translation Studies from the University of Pécs, Hungary, in 2009. Currently she works as an Associate Professor at the Institute of English and American Studies, at the University of Szeged, where she is involved both in teacher training and translator training. In translator training she teaches courses in general translation, legal translation and intercultural communication. Her research interests include the methodology of teaching translation, cognitive aspects of the translation process and the intercultural aspects of translation. She is a founding member and the Head of the Translation and MT Post-Editing Competence Research Centre.
