Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences: European Language Portfolio as an Effective Tool of Assessment Used in Teaching a Foreign Language

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / European Language Portfolio as an Effective Tool of Assessment Used in Teaching a Foreign Language

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Issue: Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2018 11 (10)
Authors: Vonog, Vita V.
Contact information: Vonog, Vita V.: Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia;
Keywords: European Language Portfolio; assessment; engineering education; intercultural foreign language professional communicative competence; foreign language teaching
Abstract: The article is devoted to the description of the main functions and descriptors of the European Language Portfolio (ELP) in teaching a professional foreign language to students of engineering profile within learner-centred education. The author describes the algorithm of the studying results assessment. Moreover the article considers the ELP structure and its content as well as positive experience of testing this technology in teaching students of a Higher School. The ELP piloting has become particularly relevant in the framework of the arrangements for training students of engineering profile to proficiency in English in accordance with the internationally recognized system in terms of improving the competitiveness of the leading Russian universities, implemented in Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk). The author describes a methodological basis for designing an assessment system corresponding to the specific character of engineering education, specifies the main functions of new tools of assessment and defines the peculiarities of that activity due to the ELP. The article deals with explaining the use of the European Language Portfolio with emphasis on a learning individual’s educational content. Results include monitoring the performance obtained in the teaching process, author’s observations and research based on students’ outcomes and aimed at monitoring the development of their own perspective due to the ELP piloting by the department of foreign languages for engineering of School of Philology and Language Communication of Siberian Federal University. Conclusions were confirmed by prognostic simulation and experimental learning. According to author’s point of view, the ELP is based on principles which tend to challenge traditional learning and teaching practices and thus impact on education policy and systems. On the other hand, piloting this technology outlined a perspective range of problems to be addressed in further research concerning engineering education
Pages: 1711-1728
Paper at repository of SibFU: https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/99016

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