E-Portfolio development literacy: A Future-Proof Approach to Language Assessment

E-portfolios, the digital version of print portfolios, have been adopted for over two decades. Despite their popularity and versatility, not all students possess the necessary competence to understand and achieve specific goals related to building e-portfolios. E-portfolio development literacy, an emerging subset of digital literacies, underscores the process-orientated rather than product-orientated nature of e-portfolio assessment, which can enhance one’s language learning development through multimodal, reflective, collaborative, and feedback-rich learning experiences. In this paper, I first define what e-portfolio development literacy entails and discuss why students need to be actively involved in their e-portfolio compilation processes, in keeping with the latest trends in educational technology and language assessment. Then, I outline the principles and strategies that teachers and students should acquire to develop e-Portfolio development literacy, which harnesses the maximum pedagogical, learning-orientated, and evaluative potential of diverse e-Portfolio tools through firsthand classroom examples. Lastly, I present several implications for language teachers who want to adopt e-portfolio assessment as a future-proof instructional approach and cultivate students’ e-portfolio development literacy.