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The European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages: A Reflection and Communication Tool in Teacher Education Programmes

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Language teacher education in Europe has become an international and transnational lifelong process and, as such, calls for tools to enable communication between the key players in the process. The European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages was developed to serve this purpose. This paper tries to shed some light on the usability of the document and to propose some possible future applications overcoming its possible shortcomings for its implementation in teacher education programmes.

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  1. Facultad de Humanidades y Educación, Universidad de Burgos, Burgos, Spain

    Aránzazu-Lucía Cosido García

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  1. Grupo de Inteligencia Computacional Aplicada (GICAP), Departamento de Ingeniería Informática, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad de Burgos, Burgos, Spain

    Álvaro Herrero

  2. Grupo de Inteligencia Computacional Aplicada (GICAP), Departamento de Ingeniería Informática, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad de Burgos, Burgos, Spain

    Carlos Cambra

  3. Grupo de Inteligencia Computacional Aplicada (GICAP), Departamento de Ingeniería Informática, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad de Burgos, Burgos, Spain

    Daniel Urda

  4. Technological Institute of Castilla y León, Burgos, Spain

    Javier Sedano

  5. Department of Industrial Engineering, University of A Coruña, La Coruña, Spain

    Héctor Quintián

  6. University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Emilio Corchado

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Cosido García, AL. (2021). The European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages: A Reflection and Communication Tool in Teacher Education Programmes. In: Herrero, Á., Cambra, C., Urda, D., Sedano, J., Quintián, H., Corchado, E. (eds) The 11th International Conference on EUropean Transnational Educational (ICEUTE 2020). ICEUTE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1266. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57799-5_17

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