Sholihatun Nastiti , 2201414093 (2019) THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS ON THE READING TASKS WRITTEN IN FOREIGN AND LOCAL TEXTBOOKS FOR GRADE 8. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

This final project is based on a study which attempted to examine the availability of higher order thinking skills presented in reading tasks of two English textbooks. The first textbook entitled Access 2 Students’ Book which is used in Thailand, was written by native speakers and published by Express Publishing in 2015. The second textbook entitled When English Rings a Bell which is used in Indonesia and was published by the Department of National Education 2014. Both textbooks are for the second grade of secondary school. The main purpose of this study was to find out how the higher order thinking skills (HOTS) are realized in the textbooks’ reading tasks and find out which textbook is more oriented to HOTS. This study is a descriptive qualitative research. The data is in the form of items from the reading tasks in the textbooks. The data were classified into six levels of Bloom’s taxonomy cognitive domain. After that, the higher order items were analyzed using analysis cards which contained 26 item types and were built based on higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy cognitive domain. The following findings were drawn from the analysis: LOTS were more dominant than the HOTS. HOTS were found in 43% of the first textbook’s reading items and 30% of the second textbook’s reading items. Only eight (31%) out of 26 items found in the first textbook’s higher order reading items. Meanwhile in the second textbook, only six item types (23%) can be found. Those results led to the conclusion that the first textbook, Access 2 Students’ Book, presented more HOTS in its reading tasks. Based on the findings, it is recommended to English textbook writers to include more HOTS in order to develop students’ thinking skills.

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