Language Passport
About
The Language Passport is designed to record knowledge, skills, and learning activities related to language and intercultural learning. Primarily conceived as a didactic tool, its main purpose is to help learners reflect on their lifelong language learning journey. Contrary to what its name may suggest, it is not intended primarily as a certificate of language proficiency, but rather as a means of supporting self-assessment and personal development.
Instead of a single, standardised passport, the final outcome will be a range of language-specific passports or profile scenarios, each tailored to a particular context or purpose. These tools are often integrated into language classes but can also support counselling and guidance in other language-related areas of higher education. Several passport versions and their corresponding scenarios have already been developed, tested, and issued to different target groups and will be stored in a dedicated language resource repository.
Moreover, these passports could serve as a foundation for more formal documents, potentially granting access to specific services or benefits, or acting as certified evidence of a learner’s overall language competence.
