Project of study of the electronic European Language Portfolio Socrates – Minerva 2003

The general aims of the project are the digitalization of an ELP (European Language Portfolio), as well as the study of its pedagogical implications; namely, we are creating an economic, multimedia, fit-for-purpose and easily deliverable digital ELP, and to promote its pedagogically correct use. Aims of the project

The ELP is an initiative of the Council of Europe to support life-long language learning as a way of responding to economic, social, and cultural changes in Europe. What is an ELP? Its functions are twofold: A reporting function A pedagogical function

ELP paper versions The ELP exists in different versions in various countries and languages, but all the ELPs have the same structure and pursue the same objectives so that every ELP is an international comparable document.

ELP EU official web site: ELP structure 1.Passport 2.Biography 3.Dossier

Even though an electronic version of the ELP is considered desirable by the Guide for developers (Schneider & Lenz, 2001:56), as far as we know, currently, no digital ELP has been validated yet. The digital ELP

Some practical issues... It is freely accessible online and deliverable by Easy to update It records longitudinal processes It allows for selective and customized access It avoids graphical overload It includes a multimedia Dossier

We concentrated on the following key issues: 1.Student’s self-awareness development 2.Self-assessment tools and learner’s autonomy 3.Transparency of the recursiveness of the learning process 4. Multimedia evidence of language learning Pedagogical issues

The digital solution offers a less redundant and tighter contiguity among its digital sections, avoiding information overload of paper ELPs. Pedagogical issues Student’s self-awareness development

Through digitalisation, we try rewrite the descriptors in a synthetic, but complete, format. The syntactic combination focuses the learner’s attention on a reduced part of the global descriptor. Pedagogical issues Self-assessment tools and learner’s autonomy

Digital ELP Beta 1.0

The information of the digital ELP are stored in a portable data structure that keeps trace of student's modifications over time. Then, data are represented in a user-friendly graphic way to show the evolution of the language learning process. Pedagogical issues Transparency of the recursiveness of the learning process

The digital Dossier is an effective documentary tool because almost all the language skills can be fully demonstrated with multimedia samples. Multimedia evidence of language learning Pedagogical issues

 Ingrid Boettcher de Lange. Europa Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder).   Giampaolo Riccadonna e Andrea Riccadonna. Gap multimedia S.r.l ww.gap.it ww.gap.it  Ingmar Söhrman. Göteborgs Universitet.  David Mighetto. Högskolan i Skövde.  Charalambos Vrasidas. IMCS Intercollege (Cipro).  Javier de Santiago Guervós. Universidad de Salamanca.  Partner coordinatore: Elena Landone e Cecilia Rizzardi. Università degli Studi di Milano. Partners

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