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ELT Journal 2003 57(1):34-42; doi:10.1093/elt/57.1.34
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Portfolios: integrating advanced language, academic, and professional skills

Cristina S. Banfi1

1 The Instituto Nacional de Educación Superiore in Lenguas Vivas ‘J. R. Fernández’, in Argentina, Email: cbanfi{at}essarp.org.ar

This article presents work with portfolios which are based on novels, and aimed at developing the linguistic, academic, and professional skills of trainee teachers and translators. It provides an overview of the work carried out over a period of three years with seven groups of students in the last year of a four-year course of studies at university and teacher training colleges in Argentina. It introduces the aims underlying the use of portfolios with these groups, describes the different components of the portfolio, reports on the feedback received from the students, and draws some preliminary conclusions on the possible applications and expansions of this kind of work. The flexibility of portfolios is considered to make them ideal tools for encouraging learner autonomy, and a useful means of showing progress in the development of the skills discussed here.

Received September 2001.


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