Taking into account my personal teaching context, what would be the advantages and disadvantages of using the ELP with my groups?

     On the one hand, it is important to record all those achievements that one acquires throughout his life, both to be aware of the learning process, as compiler tool information that may subsequently introduce even for the workplace.

     However, the issue that affects self-assessment, although it is not intended as a tool for evaluation and grading of students, from my point of view I believe that children at this age are not able to make a value judgment as to the “statements can do” not understanding the action, subjectivity and opacity of the process, along with a tool to tag “disadvantaged people” because we must not forget that children tend to compare, and can get frustrating. It’s just a new way of promoting language acquisition, as the mother tongue is likely to develop in the school world.

     Any assessment either by the student or the teacher, serves only to find their zone of proximal development Vygotsky developed very well in his theory of education, which will allow me to know the potential of each of my students and to make reach their maximum personal and individual development. Not to praise some and discourage others, the evaluation has is UNIQUE end, and mostly in preschool.

      But, in other educational levels, especially in the acquisition of foreign languages in adulthood, the European portfolio is perfect, plus utility as collector of information, serves to be aware of the learning process, and transfer application other languages besides being able to critically evaluate themselves without the need to cheat.

      Summarize, I consider timely use of the portfolio as an archive of achievements, recognition of teaching and learning for life as an opening of a large file that gradually will fill through achievements in the acquisition and learning foreign languages both own and life experiences that have occurred in favour of second language learning. What I am saying is that as file both titles as experiences is perfect, but only for this purpose, at least at this stage of education.