Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy in the Saudi EFL Classrooms

bloom's Revised Taxonomy offers an outline for planning units that include how to increase thinking activities level

There are six major categories, which are listed in order below, starting from the simplest behavior to the most complex.

1)Remembering :means getting back  information and recalling relevant knowledge  from long-tem memory that include recognizing and recalling . The lowest of taxonomic levels but  it is very crucial to learning . 

2)Understanding: means finding out the meaning of what the teacher say and write .which include classifying ,interpreting ,exemplifying , comparing ,summarizing and explaining . students understands when they build connection between new knowledge and  prior knowledge

3)Applying  refers to the ability to use learned material in a new or unprompted use of an idea . related and refers to situations where learned material is used through products like models, presentation, interviews and simulations .In Applying students applying what they learnt in their learning

 4)Analyzing: Breaking material or concepts into parts, determining how the parts relate or interrelate to one another. includes differentiate ,organizing ,attributing .

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5).Evaluating: checking the material  and Making judgments based on what learnt .

  6)Creating :is the sixth and the final domain This highest domain because in the  creative process the student/s, remembers, understands & applies knowledge, analyses and evaluates outcomes, results.

Bloom’s Taxonomy is not evident in setting learning objectives in the Saudi EFL classrooms because the English teachers in schools ask to remember things that will be the exam by using this way they don't encourage us to understanding , analysis , evaluate ,create  ."if you just remember you will pass" they put this an idea in our minds .  It is very necessary to teachers to use Bloom's taxonomy because it encourage students critical thinking and make the teaching -learning process more  effective . I can simply utilize Bloom's Taxonomy to improve student achievement when I give them a topic I ask them if they have any information or an idea about it ,then ask them to explain what they understand from it , after that tell them to apply what they have learnt ,then they have to analysis , break the materials  to show how they put together to exploring understandings and  relationships , then give them an opportunity to evaluate ,judge ,giving opinion about the topic .Finally, encourage students to create new ideas related the topic .