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LinguaFolio, Jr. is a tool to help me organize information about language learning during my early years. I can use it to describe my language background, show others what I know and can do in other languages, and keep samples of my work. It has three parts:
Information for parents and teachers
The LinguaFolio, Jr. is a collection of information about early language learning that is designed for use by educators and younger students. It allows students to record and reflect on their language learning and cultural experiences. It is a tool that should accompany language learning at a young age and is suitable for documenting language abilities for various uses.
LinguaFolio, Jr. is designed to assist students with guidance from their instructors in assessing and describing individual language skills. It is useful in facilitating articulation from elementary school to the secondary level, or for appropriate placement of transfer students. The three sections of the portfolio are available to teachers and students for building individual portfolios in notebooks and/or as electronic files.
LinguaFolio, Jr. consists of three parts:
1) Language Passport
An overview of experiences and ability with different languages. It can be updated frequently and records formal qualifications, diplomas, and self-assessments.
2) Language Biography
A record of personal language learning history that helps students to evaluate learning goals, and reflect on language learning and cultural experiences.
3) Language Dossier
A collection of pieces of work and certificates chosen by the student to document and illustrate language skills, experiences and achievements. It can be used to demonstrate the individual’s language abilities to others.
AIMS:
LinguaFolio, Jr. is intended
- to encourage the learning of all languages
- to emphasize the value of knowing many languages - plurilingualism and pluriculturalism
- to contribute to global understanding
- to promote autonomous learning and the ability to assess one’s skills
- to facilitate articulation among language programs (e.g., elementary school to secondary school, transfer of students within school districts) based on a clear and commonly accepted description of language proficiency
- to serve as a tool to assess language learning
- to recognize and value heritage languages
- to promote language learning as a life-long endeavor
LinguaFolio, Jr. will help learners
- to evaluate and describe their language proficiency in clear and simple terms
- to document and reflect on their language learning inside and outside school and on their intercultural experiences
- to inform others about their proficiency in different languages e.g., when changing schools, starting a language course, participating in an enrichment program
- to set personal language learning objectives and map out ways to achieve them, e.g., cultivating community experiences, listening to music, using the Internet
LinguaFolio, Jr. will help educators, schools and other institutions
- to recognize the needs and motivation of young learners and to help them set learning goals
- to develop culturally responsive programs for learner strengths and needs
- to obtain information about the language learners’ previous language learning experiences
- to evaluate and document performance in a differentiated way
- to connect US standards and performance guidelines to internationally accepted Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
- to describe their language programs and produce evidence of language learning experiences
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Holds samples of my work to show others what I can do in other languages. I can include:
