A bit about me
My name is Tomáš Kos. I am a Czech national from Prague, living in Dresden with my wife, three children, and a dog. Before coming to Humboldt, I taught at Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg and the University of Leipzig in the field of Primary English Language Teaching. Before that, I served as a primary and secondary school teacher for twenty years in various countries in Asia and Europe. I spent nearly fifteen years in Asia, mainly in Japan where I worked as a teacher and studied Japanese culture and language.
I received my first MA from the University of Liberec, Czechia where I studied to become a teacher of German as a foreign language and History. Later, while teaching in Japan, I joined the School of East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield where I completed an MA in Advanced Japanese Studies. Seven years ago, I completed a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics at Lancaster University in the UK.
I am an enthusiastic researcher in the field of Language Education. My research so far has looked at peer interaction, peer-mediated learning, and teaching in mixed-ability settings or CLIL. I love playing table tennis, walking in the forest, and doing yoga.
