A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE FICTIONAL REPRESENTATION OF AN OLD WOMAN REVIEWING HER LIFE

The scope of this dissertation is to investigate the representation of elderly women within our western context and the effects of late-life review on their psychological well-being. Elderly women are recurrently portrayed as doubly OTHER in our society, ‘other’ to youth and ‘other’ to men, and are thus subjected to both ageist and sexist...

Pad-agogy: Working with mobile devices in a 1:1 laptop school

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...

‘Mirror Mirror in the Book, May I Have a Closer Look?’: On mirrors and reflections in contemporary adolescent fiction

The travail de candidature at hand will deal with the use of mirrors and reflections in three contemporary teenage novels. The following works of fiction have been chosen for the purpose: The Mirror Image Ghost by Catherine Storr (1994, pre-adolescent), Black Mirror by Nancy Werlin (2001, teenage) and Mirror Mirror by Gregory Maguire (2003, young adult).

Constructed Culture? - A critical analysis of the cultural content in ELT coursebooks used in Luxembourg

The aim of this thesis is to analyse and evaluate the cultural content in the New Headway Elementary (3rd edition) series and the impact that it has on English language learning and teaching in Luxembourg. Used widely both in the ES as well as the EST, the coursebook reaches a large number of learners and therefore, I would argue that it is of crucial interest to identify...

THE EROTICS OF GENDER AMBIGUITY IN SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS

Many scholars agree that the Renaissance theatre, especially the theatrical transvestism and gender role reversal threatened the conventional categorization of the genders. If indeed most scholars agree on this statement, a question that one might ask is, how did Shakespeare use and portray desire to challenge aspects of social principles, such as the patriarchal social...

Comparison between ‘dyslexic’ children from differing language backgrounds to see whether or not the language background has an effect on spelling strategies in French.

The objective of this qualitative study in the domain of dyslexia is to determine whether there is a tendency for dyslexics from a particular language background to display similar spelling strategies when making spelling mistakes in French. One group of subjects is from a Luxembourgish language background where both parents speak Luxembourgish, and the other group is from...