She is a professor and the Director of Studies for the MA TESOL Distance programme at the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, United Kingdom.

[2] Kormos graduated at the School of English and American Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary in 1994.

[9] In 2012, Kormos was interviewed by the Hungarian television channel ATV on recent changes in foreign language teaching policies in Hungary.

She emphasised the important role of teaching students to learn foreign languages independently and autonomously with the help of modern technological tools.

Kormos features in the first video of the series and discusses the psychological effects of dyslexia on the processes of foreign language learning.

[11][12] In 2014, Kormos together with a European team from five partner countries won the ELTons award of the British Council in the Excellence in Course Innovation category.