Using Digital Portfolios to Develop Students' Writing

This book equips preservice teachers, research postgraduate students, teacher educators, and language specialists with specific knowledge and skills about the principles, research, and applications of digital portfolios within the EFL writing contexts.

Ricky Lam is Associate Professor and Associate Head in the Department of Education Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China. He is Associate Editor of Frontiers in Psychology and has served in several international editorial boards of journals, such as Assessing Writing, RELC Journal, and Journal of Asia TEFL. He has mentored eight doctoral students. Benjamin Luke Moorhouse FHEA is Assistant Professor in the Department of Education Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China. He is a recipient of the Early Career Teaching Award 2019 from the University of Hong Kong and a Fellow of Advance HE.

Introduction 1. Background 2. Rationale for digital portfolios 3. Digital portfolio-based curriculum 4. Digital portfolios for assessment 5. Feedback in digital portfolios 6. Digital portfolio application tools 7. Vignette 1: Using digital portfolios to facilitate pre-school learners' literacy development 8. Vignette 2: Adopting digital portfolios to promote primary school learners' self-regulated learning in writing 9. Vignette 3: Blending assessment and learning of writing in the secondary school language classroom via digital portfolios 10. Future directions