EASSY 1

ESSAY 1 - Advantages and disadvantages of using the ELP with my groups.

The European Language Portfolio is the document where you record and save all the information about your language level.

After study the document, I only find advantages of using the ELP.

It’s a very good way to have all your information, exams, skills, and important things that you have been doing during your formation years. And a very important thing of the ELP is that is a recognized document and you can use it in different countries with a standard and a official recognition.

If I have to tell some advantages, for example, and from a teacher point of view, it’s good way to know the level of your students and to try to motivate them in the process of learning a language. And also from the students point of view is going to show them the improvements that they reach in a language.

Another important aspect is the assessment information or the distribution of the information. In the ELP you are not only seeing if the student or a person has a A2 or a C1. You can view the level divide by different variables like speaking, reading comprehension, listening…and this means a more complete and relevant information about the level that a person has reach in a language.

Another important advantage is that when you are going to make a mobility to another country, you used the ELP to demonstrate and facilitate the level you've acquired over the language, and you can save many procedures that in the case of not have the ELP, you will need to do.

Perhaps here is one of the few disadvantages I see in the ELP. If the document is not standardized and made official in all countries, can be a problem if there are differences of criteria in assessing the validity of the information.

To conclude this first trial, only noting that the more we simplify the procedures so that a person can demonstrate the level of language you have, the better the motivation of people to learn new languages.