BLOOM`S TAXONOMY

BLOOM`S TAXONOMY

          Bloom's Taxonomy was created in 1956 by an educational psychologist called Dr Benjamin Bloom in order to promote higher forms of thinking in education, such as analyzing and evaluating concepts, processes, procedures, and pricniples, rather than just remembering. It is most often used when designing educational, training, and learning processes. Next, there is a picture of the Bloom`s taxonomy thinking:

 

            We can see that exist six categories related with the EFL teaching-learning process. The first category is knowledge, where the learners recall all the information thy received, the next category is comprehension, in which they develop their understanding of language, following with the categories, we have application where students using their knowledge in new situations. The analysis is the next category where learners break things down but in this case in a critical thinking, following we have synthesis in which students put things together in order to create a creative thinking, and finally we have evaluation that involves judgment.