The following excerpt from “Portfolios in ELT” article has been retrieved from http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/articles/portfolios-elt.
Portfolios are a popular and effective way of motivating young learners, providing a fun way to review language and helping them to reflect on their own objectives, ways of learning and success.
- A brief history of European Language Portfolios
- What are Language Portfolios?
- Advantages of using them
- The problems with Language Portfolios
- Using Language Portfolios with young learners
A brief history of European Language Portfolios
Teachers and learners have been working with Language Portfolios since the mid 1990s, and between 1998 and 2000 various ELP models were piloted in Europe.
There has been much literature written about them and there are lots of interesting examples. In the year 2001, which was also the European Year of Languages, The Council of Europe launched ELPs throughout Europe.
Many adult and young learner course books now contain features of language portfolios such as passport activities and learner checklists while many classrooms have learner portfolios stored on their shelves.
Read the complete article at http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/articles/portfolios-elt
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