This study argues that transferable skills, such as social, time-management, and personal aptitudes, which have, in the past, been neglected in secondary education, are essential to academic as well as professional success, and should therefore feature explicitly among national educational goals.

The study examines students‟ reactions to five different ways of reading fiction in the classroom. It also examines students‟ and teachers‟ opinions on reading in general, motivation and the different ways of working with fiction in the classroom.

This thesis will seek to investigate the nature of spoken language and its implications for teaching and testing. The bulk of the thesis will be concerned with the oral interview in the Examen de Fin d’Études Secondaires, which is the framework for testing the spoken English of A-level students in Luxembourg.

The goal of this thesis is to examine teenage literature with a focus on the topic of death. As an analysis of teenage literature involves many facets, the work is divided into two main chapters.

The aim of this work is to analyse and discuss a number of children’s and young adult novels in the context of the topic of piracy and moral ambiguity.

How viable marking grids can be established for the competence‐based assessment of pre‐intermediate students’ speaking and writing skills, and how they could be sensibly integrated into the Luxembourg ELT curriculum.

 

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 of the day, the question arises whether and how IT could make a meaningful contribution towards allowing a learner to acquire both transversal skills...

Educators across the globe are looking for ways to improve learning and teaching in the Information Age. The consensus is that it would be truly revolutionary if students were able to fall back on a device that would accompany them in their learning and if this device could be easily taken with them, so that learning could potentially take place anytime, anywhere.

This page contains my travail de candidature (TC), completed between May 2011 and April 2012 for the Luxembourgish Ministry of Education. In the spirit of a professional community of practice it aims to share research and be useful to fellow secondary school English teachers.