Classification of internet language learning resources based on bloom's taxonomy and the four language skills

In this modern era, teacher should recognize the trend toward the use of internet that has been widely applied in language teaching. The use of World Wide Web over the past decade has been dramatically increasing in education. It means that teacher should realize the innovation in teaching environment which can be done by using internet. Furthermore, due to the rapid development of internet language resources in this modern era, the teachers need to keep up the expanding of them. The way to keep up is classifying the internet language learning resources based on certain categories. In this study, cognitive development based on bloom’s taxonomy and the four language skills are the clear categories for classifying the internet language learning resources. This research is conducted using qualitative descriptive method. In particular, 61 web resources which were taken from Agarwal’s study were analyzed through a set of criteria which have been adapted and modified from some theoretical sources. After analyzing those web resources, there are 39 web resources that belong to categories associated with the cognitive development based on bloom’s taxonomy and the four language skills. It means that there are 64% web resources that can be guidance and assistance for the language teachers to explore those web resources and choose the right ones for their teaching purposes. Therefore, during analyzing Agarwal’s study, the researcher found that the web resources that came from his study can be classified based on bloom’s taxonomy and the four language skills theories.