Self-Taught Language A: Learner Portfolio

Compiling a Learner Portfolio is a key part of your journey as a self-taught student.  

Your Learner Portfolio can be a journal, electronic or handwritten, notebook, folder, blog or any other format that suits your learning style and shows your learning journey. It will be the basis of ongoing meetings with your supervisor and the discussions about your reflections and your progress.  

The Essential Study Tools and Areas of Exploration sections of this site contain specific guidance to ensure your Learner Portfolio is used effectively in every part of the syllabus to prepare for the different assessment components.  

The Learner Portfolio is a place to:  

• explore and reflect on the works you are studying  

• record initial thoughts and developments, brainstorming, possible solutions and further questions raised  

• store useful information, for example quotations, ideas, outlines and feedback  

• reflect on learning  

• reflect on the seven central DP language A concepts  

• experiment with and develop your command of literary terminology in your own language  

• engage with the command terms of the course  

• compile detailed evaluations and critical analyses  

• explore Global Issues  

• interact with your tutor or/and supervisor and help to stimulate discussions between you and your tutor or/and SSST Coordinator  

• record challenges faced and achievements  

• exhibit your imaginative thoughts on the world in which the writer wrote the work  

• exhibit your imaginative thoughts on the world in which readers have interpreted the work and responded to it over time  

• experiment with the literary form of the work and with transformation operations that could be applied to the work  

• respond creatively to the work you are studying  

• consider how readers today from different political, social, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds might approach and adapt the work  

• compare and contrast works in terms of themes, style and perspectives.