Perspectives from the European Language Portfolio: Learner Autonomy and Self-Assessment

ISBN-13: 9780415675543 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 198 str.

Barbel Kuhn; Maria Luisa Perez -Cavana

Opis

Almost 600.000 learners have worked with one of 90 validated European Language Portfolios in 28 European countries (Scharer, 2008). Using constructivist principles and autonomous learning techniques the ELP has been pioneering innovative and cutting edge approaches to learning languages that can be applied to learning across the spectrum. Although articles on the success of the ELP project have appeared in some academic journals The Impact of the European Language Portfolio on Education is the first book to report on and contextualise the project's innovative techniques for a wider educational research audience. The ELP has become a reference tool for language learning and teaching in primary, secondary and tertiary educational settings all around Europe The editors of this volume believe that there is a need to reflect on the significant contribution that the ELP has delivered for language learning and teaching, and to critically evaluate its achievements. This volume aims to offer a range of investigations from theoretical studies to practical cases around these issues.The volume will focus on relevant contributions of the ELP to language pedagogy assessing the impact of the ELP on pedagogical research and practice exploring and defining pathways for future developments Reflective learning

Spis treści

Chapter 1 The European Language Portfolio: history, key concerns, future prospects; Chapter 2 Developing autonomy through ELP-oriented pedagogy: exploring the interplay of shallow and deep structures in a major change within language education; Chapter 3 Between Vision and Reality:Reflection on 20 years of a common European Project; Chapter 4 The European Language Portfolio (ELP) in its original Council of Europe context; Chapter 5 The ELP as a mediating tool for the development of self-regulation in foreign language learning university contexts: an ethnographic study; Chapter 6 Overcoming the challenges of implementing the European Language Portfolio (ELP) in Higher Education: the experience of the University of Lausanne Language Centre; Chapter 7 From paper to the web: the ELP in the digital era; Chapter 8 Fostering strategic, self-regulated learning: the case for a "soft" ELP; Chapter 9 Experimentum Mundi or A concrete utopia for a language centre in Higher Education: Building blocks for successful language learning