Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics (4th edition)

The rather pedestrian title of this book did not help it leap to the top of my reviewing pile, but at least there can be little doubt about what the book contains and, contrary to my expectations, I rather enjoyed my extended browse. Between Blog and Book Flood I discovered Bloom's Taxonomy – “a taxonomy of objectives for the cognitive domain” which consists of six levels, namely, Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis and Evaluation. This classification is still rattling around my head (or perhaps it should be my “I‐language” (interior language): “language viewed as an internal property of the human...