"This is my portfolio" : portfolios in upper secondary school English studies
This qualitative case study describes a portfolio programme in the teaching of
English as a foreign language in two Finnish upper secondary schools. Approximately 100 students participated in the portfolio programme, whose topic area was culture.
Firstly, the purpose of this action research was to try out and develop portfolios in foreign language teaching as a pedagogical innovation. Secondly, the
aim was to foster students' empowerment, i.e. their active and responsible
role in learning. Thus, the primary research interests were twofold: How did
the portfolio programme proceed and progress? Did the portfolio programme
foster the students' empowerment?
The present report is divided into three parts. Part I presents the theoretical framework, Part II describes and evaluates the process of the portfolio
programme and Part III introduces and analyses different portfolio profiles
and portraits emerging from the data.
The results were promising. A great majority of the
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Institute for Educational ResearchISBN
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