HIGH ORDER THINKING SKILL (HOTS) QUESTIONS ON LEARNERS’ WRITING ABILITY OF REPORT TEXT AT EFL OF FKIP UNIVERSITAS HKBP NOMMENSEN

Abstract

This research presents to investigate HOTS question on learners’ writing ability. It intends to find out the extent of the application HOTS question in improving the EFL learners’ writing ability at report text. Learners’ writing of report text ability will be measured after giving treatment. The treatment is introducing HOTS questions through teaching. The treatment is given to one class as experiment. Treatment is done after giving a pre-test to experiment class. Then post-test is given after doing treatment. The pre-test and post-test is also given to one class as control class. Both experiment and control class is the participant of this research. They are the EFL learners at sixth semester at academic year of 2020/2021 at FKIP Universitas HKBP Nommensen. The participants consist of thirty learners at experiment class and thirty learners also at control class. The same number of participants in each class is based on the policy in this university. In every academic year there are parallel classes so the participants are taken randomly because all the learners have the opportunity as this research to be participants. Data is gathering from leaners’ scores. The score is taken from EFL learners’ ability in writing report text. Data is taken by giving pre-test, treatment, and post-test to participants. Then quantitative research design is used to analyze the data. T-test is used to measure the extent of HOTS question on EFL learners’ writing of report text. Data analysis shows that t-test is 4,0003 and t-table is 1,671. It indicates that the application of HOTS questions in teaching writing give good contribution into this research participants. It means that the application of HOTS questions affect EFL learners’ writing ability, especially in writing report text. Keywords: efl, HOTS questions, , report text, writing ability