"This is my portfolio" Portfolios in upper secondary school English studies Could portfolios foster students' empowerment? How did the portfolio programme proceed? How did the students react to the portfolio approach? This book describes a portfolio programme in the teaching of English in two Finnish upper secondary schools. Approximately 100 students and their three teachers participated in this portfolio programme, whose topic area was culture. Written by a teacher-researcher, the report combines theory and classroom practice. Part I focusses on portfolios as a tool for learning and assessment in different fields of education but mainly in foreign language teaching. Part I also discusses the concept of empowerment. Part II describes and evaluates the portfolio programme and its process in the classrooms in a detailed and pragmatic way and Part III illustrates and analyses different, authentic student portfolio profiles and portraits. Throughout Parts II and III the students' voices are heard in their own comments.