Zoltán Dörnyei was a well-respected ELT author, teacher trainer, and professor of Psycholinguistics at the School of English, University of Nottingham, UK.
Before this, he worked for 10 years as a language teacher trainer and applied linguist at Eötvös University, Budapest.
He published nearly 100 academic papers and book chapters on various aspects of second language acquisition and language teaching methodology, and wrote over 20 books on motivation, group dynamics, research methodology and the psycholinguistics of second language learning.
