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The ELP The DCU European Language Portfolio (ELP), based on a Council of Europe initiative to encourage plurilingualism and multiculturalism, is a document which records the learner's language learning and intercultural experiences in different contexts, both inside and outside the classroom. The portfolio consists of three main components:  This provides others with an overview of the learner's experience and abilities in different languages. It records formal qualifications and self- assessment.  This contains a description of the learner's personal language learning history, which helps the learner to set and evaluate his/her language learning aims and objectives and to reflect on his/her language learning and intercultural experiences.  This includes samples of the learner's work in the foreign language(s), which illustrate his/her language skills, experiences and achievements. The approach adopted by the ELP encourages the learner to be more reflective in his/her language learning practice and it fosters learner independence by requiring the learner to plan and assess his/her own progress through a lifetime of language learning. With the ELP, the learner can show examples of his/her personal language work to academic supervisors or employers to demonstrate his/her ability to study and work in the medium of the foreign language and to adapt to a diversity of cultural environments. |
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