Language Portfolio

What is a Language Portfolio?

It is a document in which you can record and reflect on your language learning and cultural experiences.

The Language Portfolio may consist of three parts: a Language Passport, a Language Biography and a Dossier.

1 Language Passport

An updateable overview of your experience in and ability with the English language. It records formal qualifications and allows for self-assessment and teacher assessment.

2 Language Biography

A record of your personal language learning history which helps you to evaluate your learning objectives, and reflect on your language learning and intercultural experiences. The Language Biography may comprise four sections:

My language learning aims.

2. My language learning history.

3. My most significant linguistic and intercultural experiences.

4.My current language learning priorities.

1. My language learning aims

Tick the options that best suit you.

1. What are you learning English for?

o a) Learn for personal satisfaction

o b) Understand different cultures

o c) Communicate with people from other countries

od) Get a better job

o e) Speak with friends or family

o f) Get by on a short visit abroad

o g) Read newspapers, magazines and books

o h) Use the Internet

o i) Other (name them)

2. What do you need to be able to do in the language?

o a) To understand people talking

o b) To speak fluently

o c) To engage in conversation on most general topics

o d) To understand different types of text

o e) To write clear texts on various topics

3. How and where do you want to learn?

o a) With friends/in a group

o b) On my own

o c) Self-study/distance learning

o d) With a teacher

o e) At home

o f) At school

o g) Abroad

o h) On line

o i) Quickly and intensively

o j) Over a long period of time

4. What sort of methods and materials would suit you?

o a) Conversation lessons with a native speaker

o b) Listening to CDs

o c) Using a textbook

o d) Reading newspapers and magazines

o e) Doing research on the Internet

o f) Using CD ROMs

o g) Watching DVDs

o h) Speaking practice

o i) Concentrating on grammar exercises

o j) Translating articles into English

o k) Writing essays

3 My Dossier (very shortly)

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