Short Stories - An appealing educational tool in the development of writing skills in the EFL classroom.
by Rausch Nancy
Writing in a second or foreign language can represent a daunting challenge for many students, and helping them overcome the fear of the white blank page is a teacher’s role inside the English foreign language (EFL) classroom. A clear understanding of the processes involved in language development and acquisition should be the starting point for practitioners when planning and implementing any projects to further this productive skill. With that knowledge in mind, selecting an...
Developing MElang-E: an Erasmus + Project
Schiltz Sarah
The aim of my “travail de candidature” is to describe and analyse the work I have done for the development of the
Erasmus + project “MElang-E” from 2015-2017.
This paper starts with a description of the project and it then explains and analyses the development of the
theoretical background on which it is based, as well as the reflections and discussions behind its pedagogical
approach.
Secondly, this paper describes the development of the background story and the...
VICTORIAN METAMORPHOSES Analysing Nineteenth-Century Anxieties of Degeneration in British Fantastic Novels after 1859.
Goergen Mike
This study validates that the concept of metamorphosis served as a trope in nineteenth-century post-Darwinian fiction to display and explore anxieties of degeneration. Part I provides three historical investigations crucial to understand the literary analyses in the second part. In Part II three different genres of Victorian fiction and their respective ways of employing the concept of metamorphosis to exhibit anxieties of degeneration support Part I.
First, a linguistic investigation of...
Analysing and Designing Entrance Exams for International Classes
Frising Nora
Over the last couple of years, Lycée Michel Lucius has considerably changed, offering new streams and different curricula to an increasingly diverse student population. The success of the school is obvious; every year, many students apply to the English Classes (IEC) at Interna-tional School Michel Lucius, a programme of study that is entirely taught in English. In order to enter the English classes, students have to sit an entrance exam that tests if they have the necessary language skills...
A FAIRER DEAL FOR PARTICIPATION
Feiereisen Conny
Teaching my 2eD from 2015-16 was rather daunting and challenging for me. I had never
had a class before in which nobody spoke up or raised their hand to contribute to the lesson.
I was facing twenty-eight learners, intelligent and academically successful, including seven
whom I had already taught in 4e and 3e the previous years, and who appeared to equally
have lost their will to express their thoughts in class. I felt very lost and helpless. How could
I prepare them for their 1e if...
‘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 Michèle
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 the model...