This paper studies undergraduate students' perceptions about using Google Docs® for guided writing of the final assessment in an Academic Writing course at a Higher Education level. Qualitative data have been collected through a Moodle survey and analysed employing Thematic Analysis. The aim is to see if students' perceptions matched with their…

This article illustrates a number of language learning tasks which can enable teachers to integrate the European Language Portfolio (ELP) into their courses; in doing so, it refers to the implementation project at the University of Padova, which began in the 2003-2004 academic year (Dalziel 2005). It starts by outlining the main pedagogical…