Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy to Analyze the Scope of CLIL Classes with Children

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William Ricardo Ortiz-Garcia
Zulma Carolina Navarrete-Villarraga

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This paper reports the results of a qualitative action research study conducted with children from a private Colombian institution. This study aimed to analyze the learners’ cognitive and knowledge outcomes measured according to the revised Bloom’s taxonomy once content and language integrated learning was implemented. Data were gathered through an interview with the learners’ parents, observation, and video recordings. Results give evidence that learners develop different processes simultaneously, classified by the mentioned taxonomy. This taxonomy is a helpful approach for English learners since it allows them to perform cognitive and knowledge processes without following rigid systematic learning. As a conclusion, this implementation with children allowed participants to develop cognitive processes with greater emphasis in levels 3 and 4 (apply and analyze), whereas level 2 (understand) was developed as part of the process. Meanwhile, the factual and conceptual knowledge dimensions were strengthened. Finally, procedural, and metacognitive knowledge is developed through the implementation itself.

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Ortiz-Garcia, W. R., & Navarrete-Villarraga, Z. C. (2024). Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy to Analyze the Scope of CLIL Classes with Children. HOW, 31(1), 11–35. https://doi.org/10.19183/how.31.1.788
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William Ricardo Ortiz-Garcia, Universidad Santo Tomás, Bogotá, Colombia

He holds a B.Ed. in Modern Languages: English-Spanish and a specialization in Human Rights teaching from UPTC. He also holds a master’s degree in Higher education. He is a PhD in Research and Pedagogy at UNADE. His research interests are based on EFL teaching and learning, e-learning.

Zulma Carolina Navarrete-Villarraga, Gimnasio Campestre Los Laureles Bilingüe

She holds a B.Ed. in English as a Foreign Language from Universidad Santo Tomás, Bogota. She has been an English educator for more than 15 years at different educational levels. Currently, she is working as primary teacher in Cajicá. Her research interests focus on TEFL to children.

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