A language teacher designs an activity where students must create a persuasive…
2026
A language teacher designs an activity where students must create a persuasive speech and deliver it to the class, combining argument construction and oral presentation. Which of Bloom's domains are primarily engaged in this task?
Answer: B. Cognitive and psychomotor domains — ConceptBloom's taxonomy groups learning objectives into three domains: cognitive for intellectual processes, affective for attitudes and values, and…
- A.
Only the cognitive domain
- B.
Cognitive and psychomotor domains
- C.
Affective and psychomotor domains
- D.
Affective and cognitive domains
Attempted by 8 students.
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Correct answer: B
Concept
Bloom's taxonomy groups learning objectives into three domains: cognitive for intellectual processes, affective for attitudes and values, and psychomotor for physical or performance skills.
An activity can engage more than one domain; classify each required learner action by the kind of learning performance it demands.
Application
Creating a persuasive argument requires selecting evidence, organizing reasoning, and producing a new speech; these are higher-order cognitive processes.
Delivering the speech requires controlled articulation, voice modulation, posture, and coordinated oral performance; these are skill-based psychomotor actions.
The prompt does not primarily assess a change in attitudes or values, so the affective domain is not central.
Contrast
Only the cognitive domain accounts for argument construction but leaves out the performance skill required for delivery.
Affective and psychomotor domains include attitudes and values, which are not the activity's primary target, and leave out argument construction.
Affective and cognitive domains include attitudes and values but leave out the performance skill required for delivery.
Result
Therefore, the primarily engaged domains are cognitive and psychomotor.