Digital Reflective Portfolio Model for Foreign Languages for Specific Purposes

Abstract

In the conditions of online teaching and working in digital environment, digital portfolio is one of important tools in the process of improving the quality of teaching and the implementation of the student-oriented model of university teaching. The aim of this paper is to create a model of a reflective digital portfolio for foreign languages for specific purposes at the Teacher Education Faculty, University of Belgrade, with the aim of raising the level of language and digital literacy in the conditions of hybrid and online teaching. In addition to the modeling method, a case study was used which included students attending the academic course of Educational Technology at the Teacher Education Faculty, with a focus on interdisciplinary connections with foreign languages for specific purposes. The paper discusses the theoretical starting points, the possibilities and challenges of using a digital portfolio teaching foreign languages for specific purposes. The review and analysis concluded that a hybrid model is a starting model for an efficient digital portfolio development, and that the digital portfolio can be successfully used in both formative and summative evaluation of student achievement, with horizontal and vertical interdisciplinary connections playing a key role.

Keywords

• digital portfolio
• european language portfolio
• foreign languages for specific purposes
• competencies
• evaluation and self-evaluation of knowledge