Competencies for Life: Promoting Transferable Skills within Luxembourgish Secondary Education

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.

A study of methodologies for reading fiction in class with language learners

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.

Investigating Spoken Language and the Oral Interview in the Examen de Fin Secondaires

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 Handling of Death in Teenage Fiction: A Close Analysis of Garth Nix’s "The Abhorsen Chronicles"

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.

Pirates as Heroes: Moral Ambiguity in Teenage Fiction

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.

Finding and Defining Pertinent and Practicable Ways of Assessing Language Learners’ Productive Skills at ‘A2’ Level

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.