Benefits for Teachers and Textbook Publishers

Global Language Portfolios will help educators, university programs, publishers, and language trainers:

* to develop a curriculum that promotes student engagement,
* to help learners set goals and develop personal strategies for lifelong learning,
* to help learners to describe their language programs and to document their language learning experiences,
* to develop culturally responsive programs for learner strengths and needs,
* to obtain information about the language learner’s previous language learning experiences,
* to evaluate and document performance in a differentiated way,
* to connect US standards and performance guidelines to the internationally accepted Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
* to correlate textbooks to curricula.