1st Edition
Perspectives from the European Language Portfolio Learner autonomy and self-assessment
Chapter 1 The European Language Portfolio: history, key concerns, future prospects; Chapter 2 Developing autonomy through ELP-oriented pedagogy: exploring the interplay of shallow and deep structures in a major change within language education; Chapter 3 Between Vision and Reality:Reflection on 20 years of a common European Project; Chapter 4 The European Language Portfolio (ELP) in its original Council of Europe context; Chapter 5 The ELP as a mediating tool for the development of self-regulation in foreign language learning university contexts: an ethnographic study; Chapter 6 Overcoming the challenges of implementing the European Language Portfolio (ELP) in Higher Education: the experience of the University of Lausanne Language Centre; Chapter 7 From paper to the web: the ELP in the digital era; Chapter 8 Fostering strategic, self-regulated learning: the case for a "soft" ELP; Chapter 9 Experimentum Mundi or A concrete utopia for a language centre in Higher Education: Building blocks for successful language learning
Biography
Bärbel Kühn is Managing Director of the Language Centre of the four public universities of the federal state of Bremen where she has implemented the use of the Bremen electronic ELP 'EPOS'. She is also chair of the Bremen Language Council.
María Luisa Pérez Cavana
is currently involved in the development of an electronic European Language Portfolio for the Open University, UK, where she works as Lecturer in German and Spanish.