
BA Hons Ling (Kossuth) GradDipTESOL (London) PhD Ling (Pecs)
Anikó Hatoss is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics. Her research is addressing linguistic justice in society focussed on the social, cultural and linguistic adjustment of immigrant communities, intergenerational language maintenance and shift, language and identity development in diasporic contexts, sociolinguistics of multilingualism, linguistic landscapes, oral narratives, bilingual parenting and language planning. Her theoretical work is set in empirical ethnographic contexts using diverse methods including surveys, interviews, narratives, linguistic landscapes and has led to direct tangible benefits for linguistically diverse communities. She received numerous grants, including an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (ARC DP) which addressed the settlement issues of African refugees in Australia. Currently, she is working on a project which explores well-being and parenting in Hungarian-English bilingual families in Australia and a linguistics landscapes project engaging undergraduate student ethnographers collecting visual data from diverse suburbs in Sydney.
Career highlight:
2008-2010 ARC DP0881753: “Modelling micro-level language planning in regional Australian refugee communities” (sole CI)
Other grants (selected):
Linguistic Landscapes, Sydney - exploring multilingualism in Sydney suburbs (ongoing)
Parenting in Hungarian-English bilingual families (ongoing)
Australian Human Rights Institute Associate
Member of International Applied Linguistics Association (AILA) Research Network on Language and Migration
Member of AILA Special Interest Group, Home Language Maintenance (HOLM)
European Diaspora Research Network
Australian Linguistic Society (ALS)
External Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
LING5015 Discourse Analysis
LING5006 Bilingualism
LING5027 Research Methods in Applied Linguistics
ARTS3695 Multilingualism and Language Planning
Volunteer teaching/community engagement:
Hungarian Literacy Classes Online (current)
English language classes for Sudanese job seekers (past)