• What is an ELP?

 Please also click on the following icon to see a video of an MLPSI teacher using the ELP with his class:  firststepsprimipassirevised_sm

   5th class in Guardian Angel's N.S. Blackrock Co. Dublin tell us why they like using their My ELP

The ELP is a personal document in which language learners can record and reflect on their language learning and cultural experiences. ELPs vary according to countries and educational contexts. However they all share common criteria and are all examined by a Council of Europe Validation Committee which accords an accreditation number.

For further information on the European Language Portfolio, please see the Council of Europe website - http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/portfolio/Default.asp?L=E&M=/main_pages/welcome.html

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The MLPSI My ELP 

The MLPSI model of the ELP has been accorded the highest praise by the Accreditation Committee. It fulfils all the stringent criteria for an ELP to attain accreditation – it fulfils the two functions of an ELP – its pedagogic function, whereby it is hoped it will motivate learners to improve their ability to  communicate in different languages, to learn additional languages and to seek new intercultural experiences. It will incite and help learners to reflect on their objectives, their ways of learning and their success in language learning. Also, it will also help them plan their learning and learn autonomously, as well as enhance their plurilingual and intercultural experiences. The ELP also has a documentative and reporting function - it aims to document its holder's plurilingual language proficiency and experiences in other languages in a comprehensive, informative, transparent and reliable way. The instruments contained in the ELP help learners to take stock of the levels of competence they have reached in their learning of one or several languages in order to enable them to inform others in a detailed and internationally comparable manner.

However, our MLPSI model goes several steps further – as well as the three constituent parts of a portfolio, the passport, biography and dossier, our model also contains a very attractive Young Learners Guide, which further promotes the idea of autonomous learning and explains in a very child-friendly manner how to best use the ELP. It also contains an explanatory booklet for adults, which we hope will encourage parents to work with their children in using the ELP.

My European Language Portfolio and the Primary Curriculum

The ELP itself has been devised with absolute regard for the revised primary and the modern languages curricula and caters superbly for the three core strands of communicative competence, language awareness and cultural and intercultural awareness. It also focuses on learning strategies and the linking of modern languages and other areas of the curriculum As such, it is not only a superlative learning tool, but it will also be a very useful teaching tool – and as in addition to elements of the four target languages of the Initiative, the ELP also is fully bilingual in English and Gaeilge, we see its use therefore not only in the context of our work, but in the broader context of the revised primary curriculum in the learning of Irish and indeed of English as an additional language.

How to buy copies of My European Language Portfolio

My European Language Portfolio is available for schools to purchase from the Government Publications Office for €6.  Please click here to download an order form:

 elp_order_form

 Please contact the National Coordinator, Tanya Flanagan, 045-530200, for further details.

Activities to assist with the implementation of My European Language Portfolio
 

  1.    Introduction to Can do statements

By clicking on the following links teachers will be able to download the bubbles with the can do statements presented at Incareer Day 16: ELP Implementation:

 Can do listening statements

 Can do statements reading

 Can do statements spoken interaction

 Can do statements spoken production

 Can do statements writing

You can also download Can do statements for some of the topics in the ELP:

Topic 1:  Myself and others 

 Myself and other Listening

 Myself and others Reading

 Myself and other Spoken interaction

 Myself and others Spoken production

 Myself and others Writing

Topic 2:  My Family

 elp_listening_my_family_tf

 elp_intro_reading_my_family_tf

 elp_spoken_interaction_my_family_tf

 elp_intro_spoken_production_my_family_tf

 elp_intro_writing_my_family_tf

Topic 3: Classroom Language & School

  elp_listening_classroom_language_and_schoolcmca

 elp_intro_reading_classroom_language_and_schoolcmca

  elp_spoken_interaction_classroom_language_and_the_schoolcmca

 elp_intro_spoken_production_classroom_language_and_schoolcmca

 elp_intro_writing_classroom_language_and_schoolcmca

Topic 4: Numbers and the Calendar

 numbers_and_the_calendar

Topic 5: My Hobbies

 elp_my_hobbies

Topic 6: Where I Live

 where_i_live_can_do_bubbles 

Topic 7: Time and Daily Routine

 time_and_daily_routine

2.  Click on the icons below to dowload the cartoon characters representing the different language skills:

 listening icon

 reading icon

 spoken production icon

 spoken interaction icon

 writing icon

 intercultural icon

3. Click on the icon below to dowload the icons for the levels of confidence:

 levels of conficence

  Training Booklets on the ELP

The MLPSI team has presented two Incareer days on the ELP. Copies of the booklets explored on these days are available to download here.

Training Booklets available to download: Click on the links below -

Module 1 - Introduction to the ELP  Module 1 Training Booklet

Module 2 - MLPSI My ELP Teacher Guidelines  ELP TG