The development of plurilingual competence through authentic assessment and self-assessmencase study

  1. Raquel Hidalgo Downing 1
  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR 02p0gd045

Revista:
VIAL, Vigo international journal of applied linguistics

ISSN: 1697-0381

Any de publicació: 2012

Número: 9

Pàgines: 63-84

Tipus: Article

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Resum

In this article we present a case-study of authentic assessment carried out with learners taking part in an online plurilingual learning programme. The procedure of authentic assessment chosen here was to propose the learners to elaborate a Portfolio. The learning context consists of a programme in intercomprehension in Romance languages which is offered through a virtual environment (www.galanet.eu). The Portfolio is used in this programme as a document of reflexive self-assessment, aimed at initiating and promoting the emergence and manifestation of plurilingual competence, as well as promoting awareness and identification of the strategies needed in a context of plurilingual intercomprehension. Following the general structure of the "European Language Portfolio", our model is organised in three sections (Language passport/Linguistic and intercultural biography/Dossier) where learners are invited to reflect on such issues as their linguistic-intercultural life experiences, self-assessment of proficiency in the languages they know, and self-assessment of learning achievement. The results of the study show that the Portfolio experience has contributed to modifying the learners’ conception of linguistic competence, allowing them to make meaningful connections between formal instruction and experiential learning, as well as to identify meta-linguistic strategies used in the process of intercomprehension.

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The "Galanet" platform, http://www.galanet.eu, received financial support within the framework of the Socrates Language Programme with the GALANET Project: website for the development of intercomprehension in Romance languages (Programme 90235-CP-1-2001-1-FR-LINGUA-L2), a project coordinated by the University of Grenoble 3, and with the participation of the universities of Aveiro, Autónoma in Barcelona, Lyon 2, Complutense in Madrid and Mons-Hainaut. For a global review of the research carried out regarding this project, see López Alonso and Séré (2003). The GALAPRO platform, www.galapro.eu also offers plurilingual training in romance language intercomprehension, although here aimed at teacher training. GALAPRO is also framed within the ‘SOCRATES-LINGUA: Programme d’éducation et de formation tout au long de la vie’ Programme (135470-LLP-1_2007-1-PT-KA2-KA2M2MP, SOCRATES-LINGUA, 2008-2009) financed by the European Commission.

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