Amplifying Students' Voices
by Mandy Kayser
The main objective of this travail de candidature was to foster students’ speaking skills. Speaking in a foreign language can represent a daunting challenge for many students, so it is the teacher’s job to help them overcome the anxiety often associated with speaking tasks. Thus, one main goal was to establish in how far working with alternative tools can decrease this and the inhibition often experienced when learners are asked to say something in the target language. The...
Are we living in the World State?
Thoss Charles
This ‘travail de candidature’ discusses Aldous Huxley’s landmark novel Brave New World, written in 1931. Huxley presents the vision of a seemingly ideal society, the World State, in which nobody suffers from hunger, war or even rejection, but where everyone is living a carefree life. This first impression is, however, shattered when Bernard Marx, one of the protagonists, is introduced. Unlike the other World Staters, Bernard is cynical and bitter; and one of the few who can...
Translating Pain
Gieres Michel
This dissertation focuses on the link between Romantic and modern writing.
Ideas and concepts encountered within De Quincey’s Confessions of an English
OpiumEater,
Suspiria de Profundis and The English MailCoach
as well as
Wordsworth’s Prelude can also be found in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Thus,
Conrad is largely indebted to both De Quincey and Wordsworth’s perceptions
of the world. Within this framework, the dissertation concentrates on how
the idea of...
The Dislocated City. Revisiting the Urban Space in Modern Teenage Fiction
Giampaolo Viviane
1. Research Objectives
In my thesis I will examine the role of urban space in contemporary young adult
literature. This research will focus primarily on the city of London, a metropolis with its
own distinctive landmarks and characteristics inherent to the city landscape. This study
will concentrate more precisely on the several ways in which the city is deformed into
an imaginary space and how it transplants its characters into an unfamiliar setting,
forcing them to act and react in...
An evaluation of CLIL as an approach to developing academic writing in English language teaching.
by Laura Baldelli
In order to succeed in their studies and beyond, students need to develop what is called academic language, a formal variety of language used to treat abstract ideas and concepts. This project seeks to determine whether Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) can be used to design an instructive course which teaches 3e students this style of writing while at the same time developing their culture générale.
This study starts by reviewing the literature on academic...
The much-dreaded but little-known people called Female Detectives': A selective study in detection of amateur and professional female sleuths prowling the 1860s.
MULLER MICHELE
Abstract
This travail de candidature investigates female detectives – both amateur and professional - in the works of (mainly) mid-Victorian authors. The overall goal of the study is not only to generate critical and popular interest in these works and the genre of crime fiction, but also to portray these female sleuths as unique and intriguing characters. These first female investigators went against the grain of the ‘Angel of the House’ – the standard ideology of...