Awards 2022
Albena Stefanova is a senior lecturer in English at the University of National and World Economy in Sofia, Bulgaria. She holds a PhD in Methodology of Teaching Modern Languages, a master’s degree in English Philology, and bachelor’s degrees in Portuguese Philology and Theory and History of Diplomacy. She has been teaching English to students of philosophy, policing, law, economics and political studies for over twenty-five years. Read more
Throughout her academic career of 50 years, Professor Judit Hidasi has devoted her professional life to public service investigating the relationship between culture and language, and disseminating widely her theoretical and research findings in order to inform and enhance the learning and teaching of foreign languages for specific purposes in tertiary education in Hungary and elsewhere. Read more
Mrs Verkama has made a successful career of over 30 years in language teaching in both a lower and upper secondary school (comprehensive school) and in senior secondary school in Finland. Read more
Der ÖDaF wurde 1984 gegründet und hat aktuell fast 450 Mitglieder. Seit 1986 ist ÖDaF Mitglied im Internationalen Deutschlehrerinnen- und Deutschlehrerverband.Der ÖDaF bietet eine Plattform für fachlichen Austausch im Bereich Didaktik und Methodik des Fremd- und Zweitsprachenunterrichts, fördert Mehrsprachigkeit, interkulturelles Lernen und nimmt Stellung zu bildungspolitischen Fragen. Read more
Awards 2019 – 2020
Der Vietnamesische Deutschlehrerverband (VDLV) wurde am 20.7.2011 gegründet mit dem Ziel, die Interessen aller Deutschlehrerinnen und Deutschlehrer in Vietnam zu vertreten. 2013 trat VDLV dem IDV bei. Derzeit hat der Verband 107 Mitglieder. Read more
Jane Orton’s contribution to the languages field has extended over five decades, principally in the areas of Chinese language teaching and the preparation of languages teachers. Read more
Hanna Komorowska, full professor of applied linguistics and the Chair of English, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, formerly full professor at Warsaw University, is well known for her involvement in the field of pre- and in-service teacher education in Poland and abroad. Read more
Paolo Balboni, former President of FIPLV, is one of the few scholars in the world who have remarkably influenced language education in recent decades. He was professor of Modern Language Teaching from 1984 to 2018 at University Ca’ Foscari in Venice (Italy), and he has been Honorary Professor since 2018 and Senior Researcher since 2020 at the same university. Read more
Bohuslav Mánek studied English and Czech at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague (1964- 69). From 1970 he worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Foreign Languages of the Faculty of Pharmacy of Charles University in Hradec Králové, where he taught English. Read more