English Language PortfolioUsing e-Portfolio

It is a fact that people only learn if they want toN. Stepanova

by V. Kostenko

school of Khruschivka

Zolotonosha district

The child was born to be happy and successful

I’d like to draw your attention to the technology of creation of the situation of success by using ELP. According to this technology the student’s language learning task is made easier by the assistance of the teacher, who serves as a guide and a companion as well as a motivator.

Why do we use the ELP?

English Language Portfolio

It is a collection of individual students’ work put together in a file.

It belongs to the student and can be updated as language learningcontinues by adding to and taking away pieces of work.

The ELP is a personal document that has three parts:

A Language PassportA Language BiographyA Dossier

Here you can record all your achievements in the English language. You can include certificates, diplomas, progress report cards, self-assessment forms, tests. In general, you can include anything that is proof of your competence in English.

Central to the ELP are six levels of communicative proficiency. The levels are summarized for the five skills of listening, reading, spoken interaction, spoken production and writing in the self-assessment grid.

This is a key component of the Language Passport.

Self-assessment gridlevel A 1  ✓ I can do this under normal           !  This is an objective for me  ✓✓ I can do this easily                    !!  This is a priority for me

Me My teacher/another

My objecti

ves

ListeningI can understand when someone speaks very slowly to me and articulates carefully, with long pauses for me to assimilate meaning.

✓ ✓ ✓

Reading I can understand information about people (place of residence, age, etc.) in newspapers. I can understand a questionnaire (entry permit form, hotel registration form) well enough to give the most important information about myself (name, surname, date of birth, nationality).

✓

Spoken InteractionI can introduce somebody and use basic greeting and leave-taking expressions. I can ask and answer simple questions, initiate and respond to simple statements in areas of immediate need or on very familiar topics.

✓

Spoken Production I can give personal information (address, telephone number, nationality, age, family, and hobbies) I can describe where I live.

Writing I can fill in a questionnaire with my personal details (job, age, address, hobbies). I can write a greeting card, for instance a birthday card. I can write a simple postcard (for example with holiday greetings).

Here is what you will be able to do in English (listening, reading, writing and speaking).

Every now and then, for instance once a month, you will need to check you progress. For this reason you should use a pencil so that you can change or add things as you go along.

You can use the following code:Self-assessment “Now I can…!”

Very wellOK

Not very well

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1

Listening

Reading

Writing Speaking

Assessment GraphHere a teacher and a student can draw a line graph showing the growth of student’s listening, reading, writing and speaking. A student should do with coloured pencils this before tests and a teacher after them at the end of semesters.

№ Title of the activity(topic,

theme etc)

I’ve done this (+)

Self-assessmen

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Teacher’s assessmen

t

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Now I learn!In your Language Portfolio, you can include anything you like to keep and show as evidence of your progress in English. Every time you do some activities, tick (+) the relevant box.

This is a collection of works which shows learner’s level of English.

It may include corrected homework, tests, projects, book reviews, videos, diary entries, e-mails, poems etc.

E-portfolio

How to create e-Portfolio

In order to use e-Portfolio in the classroom you must have access to computers and an Internet connection.

Many schools provide a small amount of Web hosting space on a district servers for each student to create an online e-Portfolio.

You can also use Google Docs resources to add your own account. On your page you can create some new documents, presentations, save photos and videos.

Google Disk

Our work at European Language Portfolio

1. Council of Europe Standard (C.O.E.): What your language level means www.coe.int/portfolio2. Council of Europe. Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. http://www.coe.int/T/DG4/Portfolio3. Council of Europe. European Language Portfolio: key reference documents. Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 2006.http://www.coe.int/T/DG4/Portfolio4. Little David Francis, Goullier and Gareth Hughes “The European Language Portfolio: the story so far.” Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 2011.5. Little David ‘The European Language Portfolio and self-assessment: using “I can” checklists to plan, monitor and evaluate language”, Tokyo: Asahi Press, 2010, 186–198.6. Malisa Iturain “ e-portfolios for teaching English”, Teacher British Council YL Centre, Barcelona7. Peter Lenz & Gunther Schneider: European Language Portfolios. www.coe.int/portfolio8. Resolution on the European Language Portfolio (adopted at the 20th Session of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education of the Council of Europe, Cracow, Poland, 15-17 October 2000)9. www.google.com.ua