Analysis of the Exercises in the Textbook ‘Mabadi Al-Alarabiyyah’ (the Principles of Arabic) based on Anderson and Krathwohl’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives )Case Study: Exercises of Syntax Section)

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1 Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran

2 Ph. D. Graduate of Arabic Language and Literature, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran

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Abstract:
Anderson & Krathwohl’s Taxonomy is, in fact, the revised taxonomy of Bloom that has been used for nearly half a century as a valid framework for educational issues. This classification is one of the most well-known classifications used extensively in recent years to evaluate textbooks, and many researchers from all over the world have referred to it in the field of education. Therefore, the present study has selected the cognitive levels and types of knowledge presented in this classification as a tool to study the four volumes of the book ‘Mabadi Al-Alarabiyyah’ (the Principles of Arabic) by Rashid Al-Shartooni to examine the distribution of cognitive levels and the four types of knowledge in the exercises related to the ‘syntax’ section relying on the descriptive-analytical method. To this end, the present study provided the descriptive statistics of the frequency of replicates and the percentage of cognitive levels in the exercises and classified them based on the research tools. The aim of this study was to analyze the cognitive levels of exercises and to examine their appropriateness to the goals mentioned in the teaching curriculum of the syntax course as one of the important educational materials in some academic fields of Iran. The results showed that the exercises have not been distributed in a continuous and coherent form, so that a significant part of them are related to the level of ‘use’ and executive knowledge which is exclusively one of the objectives of the syntax course, namely the recognition of Arabic words and phrases and the use of syntactic rules in new situations in educational topics.

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