The MagyarOK Hungarian Language Preparatory Program at the International Studies Center of the University of Pécs

Abstract

Within the special field of language teaching for international students in the form of university language preparatory programs, the study presents and describes in detail the MagyarOK Hungarian Language Preparatory Program at the International Studies Center of the University of Pécs. After a short theoretical and historical survey of preparatory language courses, specific structural and methodological aspects of the program are discussed including, among others, the curriculum, the practical ways of teaching and testing, as well as teaching language for academic purposes. The paper also places strong emphasis on the cultural aspects of teaching Hungarian as a foreign language, and on methodological questions of cultural mediation.