Higher Order Thinking Skills Integrated in Reading Activities of Modul PJJ Bahasa Inggris for Ninth Grade Students in Indonesia: A Content Analysis

Bintang Tyatira, Siti Drivoka Sulistyaningrum

Abstract


Higher Order Thinking Skills in reading are crucial to be developed among students in this 21st Century. Especially for students who are still in Junior High School level as the materials that are mostly given for their final assessment in Ujian Nasional are reading materials with HOTS included in the test. However, the kind of reading activities provided in course-books for English subjects for Junior High School level in Indonesia for the past few years showed that higher-order thinking skills are barely presented. Moreover, course-books for English subjects keep changing to adjust the needs for students' outcomes and the research on the integration of HOTS specifically in reading tasks in current English course-books for Indonesia Junior High School level is also considerably limited. Thus, this study, which applies a content analysis method, aims to analyze how the HOTS, that are corresponding to the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy, are incorporated in reading activities that are in line with the reading materials provided in the English module that is currently used for the Junior High School level in Indonesia during the pandemic era, Modul Pembelajaran Jarak Jauh untuk Bahasa Inggris. This study reveals that the lower-order thinking skills outnumber the higher-order thinking skills, thus the module needs an improvement in terms of the activities’ instructions and question stems.

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