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https://doi.org/10.15516/cje.v18i2.1624
The European Language Portfolio as an Educational Innovation in Primary and Secondary Schools: You Have to Catch Them Young?
Urška Sešek
; English Department, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
Janez Skela
; English Department, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
Sažetak
The paper presents a study of the implementation of the European Language Portfolio, an innovative material aimed at boosting learner autonomy and development of multilingual communicative competences in learners of all ages. The monitoring of the piloting of the ELP in Slovenian primary and secondary school over several years included a survey of 1,634 students aged 10 to 17. The survey is analysed with a view to presenting the often overlooked perspective of the end-users of educational innovation, focusing on how learner age affects their patterns of use of the new material as well as their attitudes towards and perceptions of it. The results suggest that age definitely played a role in the learners’ reception of the ELP; the levels and types of engagement with the material and the learners’ perceptions of its difficulty, enjoyability and value for their growth as (language) learners were lower among secondary students than among primary students almost across the board. Age probably played a role in this via two related factors. Greater cognitive maturity seems not to have contributed to a better reception of the innovation; the poorer results in primary schools probably reflect the common decrease of motivation for schoolwork through the teenage years.
Ključne riječi
age; educational innovation; learner autonomy; learner characteristics; materials; pilot study
Hrčak ID:
160250
URI
Datum izdavanja:
19.6.2016.
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