A Collaborative Action Research on Building English as a Foreign Language(EFL) Digital Teaching and Learning Portfolios in Taiwan

摘要

The purposes of this study are to (a) build digital teaching portfolios; (b) guide students in building digital learning portfolios; (c) explore the difficulties of building digital portfolios; and (d) provide procedures to show how to best build digital portfolios. Some desired outcomes of this research include: (a) producing an electronic portfolio (b) providing teachers' with activities which include worksheets, activity photos, and student role plays in English; (c) organizing student learning outcomes, such as posting student personal homepages, diaries, and voice files in English; (d) sharing difficulties encountered when producing and maintaining electronic portfolios, including problems with computer viruses, students' lack of computer skills, and offering some possible solutions; and (e) demonstrating the procedures for building EFL teaching and learning portfolios, which is: writing teaching syllabus, arranging teaching portfolio content, seeking cooperative researchers, and learning more about computer technology.