This Language Portfolio is your property. It has been designed to help you improve your language learning. It will accompany you throughout your school life and will help you document your learning both inside and outside the classroom. The Language Portfolio contains material which you can use and then keep as a record of your learning. In this portfolio you can also include any extra material given by your teacher, throughout the course. However, the final decision of what to include in the Language Portfolio is completely up to you.
In practice, Language portfolios may include a project or other examples of written work, CD or DVD (with some work or drawings completed inside or outside the class, favourite stories or your performances of songs, plays, your videos in Google/You Tube format, etc), certificates, reports from your teacher, or even a collection of objects or pictures.
Here is a short explanation of each section in your Language Portfolio:
I Language Passport
This is an updated report of your progress in English language learning. You will include in this section any evidence of your formal qualifications (certificates, diplomas), tests, progress report cards, self-assessment cards, etc.
II Language Biography
This is an updated record of your personal language learning history which helps you evaluate your learning aims, and reflect on your language learning and inter-cultural experiences.
III Dossier
This is a collection of your work which you have chosen to illustrate your language skills, experiences and achievements in the English language. In this section of your Language Portfolio there is some material you can use. You can also file any work you do inside or outside the classroom that you would like to keep as evidence of your work in English.
I hope you really enjoy doing these activities.
Mr Campos
Virginia Evans – Jenny Dooley, Winners 7 (Express Publishing 2006, p. 7)
