in the

Foreign

Language

Classroom

Bloom’s

Taxonomy

Tips, Tools and Resources to help

your students rise in proficiency

and communicate with confidence.

The original Bloom’s Taxonomy

had 6 levels of cognition.

Learner’s ability to recall information

Learner’s ability to recall information

Learner’s ability to understand

information

Learner’s ability to recall information

Learner’s ability to understand

information

Learner’s ability to use information in

a new way

Learner’s ability to recall information

Learner’s ability to understand

information

Learner’s ability to use information in

a new way

Learner’s ability to break down

information into its essential parts

Learner’s ability to recall information

Learner’s ability to understand

information

Learner’s ability to use information in

a new way

Learner’s ability to break down

information into its essential parts

Learner’s ability to create something new

from different elements of information

Learner’s ability to recall information

Learner’s ability to understand

information

Learner’s ability to use information in

a new way

Learner’s ability to break down

information into its essential parts

Learner’s ability to create something new

from different elements of information

Learner’s ability to judge or criticize

information

Learner’s ability to recall information

Learner’s ability to recall information

Learner’s ability to understand

information

Learner’s ability to recall information

Learner’s ability to understand

information

Learner’s ability to use information

in a new way

Learner’s ability to recall information

Learner’s ability to understand

information

Learner’s ability to use information

in a new way

Learner’s ability to break down

information into its essential parts

Learner’s ability to recall information

Learner’s ability to understand

information

Learner’s ability to use information

in a new way

Learner’s ability to break down

information into its essential parts

Learner’s ability to judge or criticize

information

Learner’s ability to recall information

Learner’s ability to understand

information

Learner’s ability to use information

in a new way

Learner’s ability to break down

information into its essential parts

Learner’s ability to judge or criticize

information

Learner’s ability to create something new

from different elements of information

Theses updates reflect a more

active thought process and

include two main changes:

Category names were revised

from nouns to verbs.

The last two stages of Bloom’s

Taxonomy were switched so that

evaluation comes before synthesis.

When learning a foreign

language it is important to

recognize that these skills

are not a hierarchy,

but are interrelated.

Here are questions to use when

creating tasks, activities &

assessments in the world language

classroom using the updated

Bloom’s taxonomy categories:

Remember:

Can the student recall or

remember the information?

Understand:

Can the student explain ideas

or concepts?

Apply:

Can the student use the

information in a new way?

Analyze:

Can the student distinguish

between the different parts?

Evaluate:

Can the student justify a

stand or decision?

Create:

Can the student create a new

product or point of view?

Click below to download a list of

over 60 verbs to use when

creating tasks, activities &

assessments using Bloom’s

(updated) taxonomy.

Click HERE

to read my blog

post on Bloom’s

Taxonomy.

www.wlclassroom.com

Tips, Tools and Resources to help

your students rise in proficiency and

communicate with confidence.

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Lorin Anderson and David

Krathwohl : A Taxonomy for

Learning, Teaching, and Assessing:

A Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of

Educational Objectives. New York :

Longman, ©2001.