Diplôme d'accès aux études supérieures (DAES) - The path to designing a viable English course
Krack Christine
The aim of my research project is to document the process of designing the structure
and content for the English course to be implemented in the final year in the framework of the
diplôme d'accès aux études supérieures (DAES) in the École de la deuxième chance (E2C).
The project also has the objective to provide a ready-to-use lesson sequence including methods
and material.
First of all, I examine the origins of the DAES and explain this new diploma in the
Luxembourg education...
‘A system of vast circumferences circling round the minute neighbouring points of home’ – An Ecocritical Approach to Edward Thomas’ England
Pesch Chris
The aim of this thesis consists in reading the poetry of Edward Thomas from an ecocritical perspective. As a lover of nature who died in World War I, his views on England, the country he felt he had to defend, are of particular interest when approaching his poetry.
The thesis is divided into six chapters, each looking at different aspects related to an ecocritical study of his poetry about England: the history of the pastoral mode and the English countryside in the first two chapters, the...
Crossing Boundaries: From Private to Public Space in Frankenstein, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Dracula
Toussaint Marguerite
This dissertation focuses on what are probably the three most famous ‘monster
stories’ of the 19th century: Frankenstein (1818), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
(1886) and Dracula (1897). The aim of my research was to determine how information is
shared or not shared within and across private, semi-private, and public spaces in the
three novels, and how the different characters contribute to the production of those
spaces. Almost all of the main characters spend a...
The Eternal Allure of Immortality From Dracula to Edward: The Evolution of the Vampire Figure and its Undying Appeal to the Modern-Day Reader
Simon Jennifer
The Vampire: a dangerous predator yet so alluring and seducing. Over the last few
decades, the fascination for the ancient myth of the vampire has increased significantly.
Highly adaptable to the needs of any society, the original image of the mythological vampire
has undergone several changes to adjust to the demands of modern-day society. The
vampire’s adaptability to contemporary society also makes vampire fiction suitable for the
teaching of English as a second...
An evaluation of the FOLA-lessons at the Atert Lycée Redange. Identifying success factors and areas for improvement towards better practice.
Bernard Anne-Sophie
FOLA-lessons (Follow-up Learning Activities) at the Atert Lycée Redange consist of a number of weekly lessons in which students are expected to complete a series of tasks. These lessons are meant to reduce social inequality in order to provide students with equal opportunities to do their homework inside the school, especially for those who lack an adequate learning environment at home. In addition to this goal, quite a number of other aims and objectives were initially set for the...
Mister Pip’s Great Expectations and Hard Times – Teachers, Authors, and the Art of Storytelling in Charles Dickens’s Hard Times and Lloyd Jones’s Mister Pip
Petry Anouk
In this dissertation, I argue that an analogy can be drawn between the
relationship of the teacher to his students and the author to his readers.
Authority lies at the heart of both teaching and writing. I outline the parallels
between teachers and authors at the hand of two concrete examples in
literature; Charles Dickens’s Hard Times and Lloyd Jones’s Mister Pip.
First, I compare the teacher characters in these novels to explore their different
teaching...