My autonomy classroom / CLASS ENTRY 1

In order to know about the ELP, we read European Language Portfolio: structure, origins, implementation and challenges by David Little. He explains what is this in a chronological sense and introduces pedagogical concepts and a summary about its reporting function.

We have been specially attracted for its pedagogical function and we have followed the clue of professor Little. He is Director of the Centre for Language and Communication Studies ans Associete Professor of Applied Linguistic at Trinity College in Dublin and you can see and hear him in a conference (San Sebastian 4-6 october 2012) in the post before this one.

What about pedagogical function of ELP? In the article, Little explains about the importance of autonomy learning for the process of learning, overall, and in second language learning, particularly.

In the conference, Little concludes saying that an autonomy language learning environment is one that: recognizes that learners' identity has a key role to play; it exploits their existing linguistic knowledge and communicative competences; it insists that from the beginning they exercise agency in and though the target language; it recognizes that learning is not all inside the head: it is social (and physical) as well as a cognitive phenomenon; it uses logbooks / blogs and posters (and others products) to construct the story of individual and collective learning and it understand that we solve the motivational problem by exploiting learners' intrinsic motivation.

I think this approach has been absolutely interesting in order to deep into the second language learning.

And go on.