Full Description
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, namely pre-service teachers, teacher educators, and Ministry of Education staff members with a focus on EFL writing. The rationale behind this design is that the published literature on digital portfolios tends to be generic and one-size-fits-all; there has been scant published scholarship about the development of digital portfolio literacy among teachers and pupils, which could enable them to upgrade the teaching and learning of writing in a larger EFL environment. This volume fills this gap by illustrating the why, what, and how aspects of digital portfolios in ten reader-friendly chapters.
Guiding educators to enrich their pedagogical repertoire via the portfolio approach, this book emphasises a healthy balance between principles, research, and practice. It is an easy-to-follow guide to setting up digital portfolio systems and coaching pupils to improve writing, ensuring the dissemination of digital portfolios with high fidelity.
Contents
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
