ADVENTAGES
AND DISVENTAGES ABOUT ELP
WHAT IS THE EUROPEAN
LANGUAGE PORTFOLIO. ELP
DESCRIPTION
It is a document outlining the linguistic and cultural
experiences of children: reflections about contacts with cultures and their
progress in learning the languages they know and learn.
It not intended as a report card. It is a personnel
document, property of the child, who witnesses their curiosity about the
cultures and languages, their progress, their efforts to learn. A diary that
will help you develop your autonomy apprentice and will motivate you to want to
know more about the languages of Europe and the world's people.
The Council of Europe’s European Language Portfolio
(ELP) has three obligatory components.
ELP
COMPONENTS
ü
Language passport : which summarizes the owner’s linguistic identity by briefly recording second/foreign
language learnt, formal language qualifications achieved, significant
experiences of second/foreign language use, and the owner’s assessment of his/her
current proficiency in the second/foreign language he/she knows.
o
Record of formal
qualifications.
o Describes linguistic
competences and the most significant linguistic and intercultural experiences
o
Includes information about
partial and specific competences
o
3 types of assessment: self,
teacher and official exams
o Speaking, writing,
listening, reading
ü
Language
biography: which is used to set language learning targets, monitor progress, and
record specially important language learning and intercultural experiences.
o
Involvement in planning, reflection and assessment of
students’ learning progress
o
Records what student can do
o Linguistic and cultural experiences (out of the
classroom dimension)
o Fosters multilingualism
Language dossier: which contains a selection of work that in the
owner’s judgement best represents his/her second/foreign language proficiency. Collection
of work.
o
Selected materials to illustrate claims in the
passport and biography
o
Gather written and oral samples
USES OF THE ELP
ü To improve
language learning and the capacity for self-assessment
ü To encourage
people to learn languages through their lives (lifelong learning)
ü To facilitate
mobility in Europe by means of a clear and recognizable description of
linguistic competences
ü To favor understanding
and tolerance among European citizens by means of the knowledge of other
languages and cultures
FUNCTIONS
OF THE ELP
ü PEDAGOGICAL
o Transparency in the learning process
o Develops reflection and self-assessment
o Responsibility for their own learning
o Autonomy
o Lifelong learning
o Communicative approach
ü INFORMATIVE
o
Completes information provided by official diplomas
o
Facilitates
mobility (CEFR based)
TABLE WHAT TO DESCRIBE SKILLS, COMPETENCIES AND LEVELS:
SPEAKING, READING, LISTENING, WRITTING, A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2.
ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES
The advantages of the ELP are:
ü Students can carry out their self-evaluation.
ü Students gain a greater responsibility for their work,
gather information, select the information themselves and reflect on the
content and its work.
ü Learn slowly and consciously basic skills.
ü At the same time unite students learning at school
with their daily life and daily
ü Students make a reflection on their intercultural
experiences
ü Students learn values, respect and equality.
ü It can be adapted to all types of students.
The disadvantages of the ELP are:
ü This type of project requires a long time and be
coordinated with all teachers.
ü It requires keeping track throughout the school life
of each student and continued this task is very difficult in some schools with
low teacher, changes in laws, and changes in methodology.
ü This type of project requires motivate teachers and
students, as it is an ongoing and very expensive work by the two parties.
ü It requires learning and development of
self-assessment, to learn complicated criteria at an early age.
ü It also requires autonomy develop in students, which
is acquired in the primary stage.
ü Not all teachers want to continue or perform such
projects or do not know how.
ü Families often disagree with these projects and do not
collaborate at home.
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