The e-portfolio & the EuropeanLanguages Portfolio

Inma Álvarez and Tita Beaven, Departmentof Languages,The Open Universitywith María Luisa Pérez Cavana

Aims and functionsof European Language Portfolio

Aims

•to motivate learners;•to provide a record of the linguistic and cultural skills.

Functions

•Pedagogic: –Enhance the motivation of the learners –Incite and help learners to: reflect, plan, learn autonomously –Encourage learners to enhance their plurilingual and interculturalexperience•Documentation and reporting: –plurilingual language proficiency and experiences in other languages –to enable them to inform others in a detailed and internationallycomparable manner

Overview of the ELP

The portfolio contains three parts.

1 Language Passport

•The Language

Passport

is a record of students’language skills, qualifications and experiences (inone or more languages, including their own). For the passport, the learner records their profile of language skills in relation to the CommonEuropean Framework, a résumé of languagelearning and intercultural experiences, and arecord of certificates and diplomas.