The European Language Portfolio is a personal
document that every student can fill in
with their improvements in learning English. My subject is Development Community and we could use it.
Now, I am
going to explain the advantages and disadvantages about this educational
linguistic resource.
ELP has some advantages. I consider that students could be aware of their progress every day. It´s a
motivational way to learn in the CLIL method. The three components of the ELP are:
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Language Passport: it is recorded formal qualifications, and I
can see the learning individual process of English and the student as well.
There are three types of assesment: self, teacher and official exams. This
resource is more formal and it would be related to academic issues.
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Language Biography: can be
interesting to record different social experiences that students can show about
themselves. For example, have conversations with foreign people with surveys, interviews…etc.
We can create fascinating experiences among people from different nationalities
and cultures.
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My language dossier: in this section,
pupils can introduce the differents assignments. For example, in my subject
related to participation in different events in the community: social meetings,
discussion social- groups, volunteering
in an association, participation in different cultural activities…etc.
With regards
to disadvantages, we can see different problems that it could happen if I use
the ELP: In the first place, I can say that in order to develop this tool, you need time to show, explain and use it. However, teachers always need time to make
students get the objectives. It´s obvious that we want to use this tool,
it´s necessary to explain how to use it and explain how it will be used throughtout
school year. We need to balance what it
is more important to pupils according to time, pupils features and achievements.
To sum up, it´s
crucial when using the CLIL methodology to find resources to motivate our
students. ELP is one of those key
elements that can help us to do it.
