Taking into
account my personal teaching context, what would be the advantages and
disadvantages of using the ELP with my groups?
Nowadays Teachers have lots of resources to use
in their classes and one of them is ELP, European Language portfolio, which is
a document for the pupils that contains diferents parts linked to the standardized
levels of languages.
It’s like an individual diary about your
progress in English and it shows pupil’s capacities in a language and
linguistic experiences. Also, it’s made for different levels so that the pupils
can have it to follow their progress in a long term.
Personally, as primary teacher in Valencian
Community I believe that ELP it’s a good resource for my groups because it make
self-assessment helping students to be more independent and to understand a
language as a lifelong learning, not as a thing that has to be studied only for
a level certificate or to finish the studies and then forget everything, and
this is an understanding problem on today’s language students that has to be
avoided.
ELP is good for the evaluation also because
with it the teacher can have an individual document from each pupil about how
he or she believe her or his progress is, and what capacities the pupils think
they have, so the teacher can have a specific view in the evaluation and can
have a look in each capacity comparing the student’s opinion about the
knowledge or experiences with the teacher’s rubric for example.
Another good view of this source is that it’s
so motivating for the students who are writing their progress and levels and
this causes a special interest from them to go up, step by step comparing their
previous levels with the new ones.
On the other hand, in my opinion it’s difficult
to apply this resource in our primary classes because we don’t have enough time
to let the students write the ELP so maybe they would have to do it a home and
it’s difficult to control that every pupil has controlled her or his ELP.
