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RR 2011/76 Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics (4th edition) Jack C. Richards and Richard Schmidt Longman, an imprint of Pearson Harlow 2010 ISBN 978 1 4082 0460 3 viii + 644 pp. £19.99
Keywords Dictionaries, Language, Linguistics, Teaching
Review DOI 10.1108/09504121111114171
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 mind or a computational system of the human mind"). This is contrasted with "E-language" (Externalised language) defined as: "language viewed as a collection of texts or a social phenomenon" - two rather different concepts...