1st Edition

Using Digital Portfolios to Develop Students’ Writing A Practical Guide for Language Teachers

By Ricky Lam, Benjamin Luke Moorhouse Copyright 2023
166 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

166 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

166 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book equips pre-service teachers, research postgraduate students, teacher educators, and language specialists with specific knowledge and skills about the principles, research, and applications of digital portfolios within the EFL writing contexts. While most digital portfolio scholarship focuses on higher education, this book targets primary-level and secondary-level school audiences,... Read more

Introduction 1. Background 2. Rationale for digital portfolios 3. Digital portfolio-based curriculum 4. Digital portfolios for assessment 5. Feedback in digital portfolios 6. Digital portfolio application tools 7. Vignette 1: Using digital portfolios to facilitate pre-school learners’ literacy development 8. Vignette 2: Adopting digital portfolios to promote primary school learners’ self-regulated learning in writing 9. Vignette 3: Blending assessment and learning of writing in the secondary school language classroom via digital portfolios 10. Future directions

Biography

Ricky Lam is Associate Professor and Associate Head in the Department of Education Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China. He is Associate Editor of Frontiers in Psychology and has served in several international editorial boards of journals, such as Assessing Writing, RELC Journal, and Journal of Asia TEFL. He has mentored eight doctoral students.

Benjamin Luke Moorhouse FHEA is Assistant Professor in the Department of Education Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China. He is a recipient of the Early Career Teaching Award 2019 from the University of Hong Kong and a Fellow of Advance HE.