Note:  Requirements for the portfolio may change as the term progresses;  changes will be announced/discussed in class.  If you are absent, be sure to ask if any changes were made to the portfolio requirements.

Your portfolio should be a lightweight 3-hole binder (paper is fine).  You will be inserting pages throughout the term, so consider ease of use when you purchase one.  The binder should be clearly divided into the five sections below.  All work should be clearly dated. I will ask you to turn in your portfolio two or three times during the term, and again at the end of the term.

Be sure to update your portfolio before every class, and bring it to every class.  I will not tell you when I am going to collect them (surprise, surprise!).

You are expected to do approximately 6 hours of homework every week, including doing the TOEFL tests in the Learning Center.  You should keep two separate pages (and add more later as needed) in this part:  one page should log your homework dates, tasks, and time spent; the other page should log only Learning Center TOEFL practice--dates, tasks, and time spent.  Below is an example of both kinds of  logs:

Homework Log for Margaret Young

DATE	TIME (# hours)	TASK DESCRIPTION
1/6	2	analyzed practice test #1, filled out error analysis page
1/7	1	reviewed top priority errors in textbook
1/8	1/2	reviewed strategies

Learning Center Log  for Margaret Young

DATE	TIME (# hours)	TASK DESCRIPTION
1/7	3/4	50 TOEFL Tests (tests #1 and 2)
1/8	1	50 TT (tests 3 and 4)

Every time you do a practice test, either from the book, the packet, or in the Learning Center, you should look carefully at the kinds of questions you missed, and their frequency.  Through this analysis, you will learn what you need to work on most. I will give you hard copy handouts in class of analysis sheets you can use for this.  Keep the handouts clean, and make photocopies to write your analyses.

Every time you do a practice test in class, at home, or in the Learning Center, please write some short comments about the test, and your analysis of it.  Some of your reflections might include comments about time, stress, or other problems during the test.  However, you should always have a comment about what you think your greatest problems were on the test (be specific--what kinds of questions?), and a specific plan to solve those problems.

We will spend some time in class practicing writing TOEFL-type questions, especially for the structure and listening parts of the test.  You will also be asked to write some questions for homework.  Include all of the questions you write in this part of your portfolio.

This section should include new words from practice tests that you believe are important.  I recommend including two or more types of items here:  idioms and phrasal verbs from the listening sections of tests, and key words and synonyms from the reading sections of tests  .Of course, you may include any words you think are important, but they must have previously been unknown to you,

Write 1) the word, 2) its synonym, meaning, or a drawing of it, and 3) and other information that will help you remember it.

Remember--keep your portfolio up-to-date, and bring it to every class.  I may collect it at any time.