CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES AND TABOOS IN THE CLASSROOM. Teaching Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower in an Intermediate English Language Course

The aim of this thesis is to deal with controversial issues in an intermediate English language class. The focus lies on finding ways to integrate taboo topics in the curriculum and on making them accessible for the students, using The Perks of Being a Wallflower as a vehicle for this. The first part analyzes, on the one hand, education in general in Luxembourg, as well as...

Teaching English to Digital Natives - Harnessing the power of social networks andInformation and Communication Technology (ICT)

In September 2011, facebook claimed to have reached “more than 800 million active users”. At fixed times throughout the week I meet about 100 of them: they are my students. For them, as much as for me, the use of social networks and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has become an integral part of our daily lives. A considerable part of the world...

ASPECTS OF THE ACQUISITION OF ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE IN THE LUXEMBOURGISH SCHOOL SYSTEM

The principal aim of this project was to develop a greater understanding of how second language acquisition (SLA) differs from first language acquisition (FLA), and how this affects the attainment of English in Luxembourgish schools. In order to achieve this goal we decided to observe language production by students in their first year of English and subsequently...

ASPECTS OF THE ACQUISITION OF ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE IN THE LUXEMBOURGISH SCHOOL SYSTEM

The principal aim of this project was to develop a greater understanding of how second language acquisition (SLA) differs from first language acquisition (FLA), and how this affects the attainment of English in Luxembourgish schools. In order to achieve this goal we decided to observe language production by students in their first year of English and subsequently...

Critical Tweeting in the Classroom - Conducting research, sharing results and creating a knowledge base through ICT

Research objectives   The idea behind the proposed topic for a travail de candidature revolves around making productive use of modern-day informatics technology in- and outside the traditional classroom environment. As technology has become an integral part of a teenage learner’s life, often accompanying the student from the moment they wake up until the end...

I Guess I am a Good Enough Daughter

In my thesis I discuss the mother-daughter relationships in a number of graphic memoirs by women, published predominantly in the last decade. The decision to look at the medium of the graphic memoir/novel is based on its distinctiveness, that the combination of word and image offers a rich and complex area for analysis, and the rapidly increasing importance of the...