Abstract
This paper aims at investigating factual phenomenon of higher order thinking as it reflected in the reading activities of “Bahasa Inggris SMA/MA XI”. Using theory of Bloom’s taxonomy, this study used the content analysis method to identify reading features specifically for their essay questions and exercises and tasks of the English textbook. The data of essay reading questions were collected by using coding checklist . Three categories of higher order thinking (analyze, evaluate, and create) are discovered while the distribution of the higher order thinking level is higher than the lower order thinking level. The findings reveals higher order thinking activation and activities in the reading exercises and tasks is unequal. It do, especially the create skills which pursued lower distribution es not provide treatment properly of the higher order thinking than the analyze skill and the evaluate skill Rather, this makes emphasis on the evaluate skills.
Highlights
In English language teaching process, English textbooks performs a substantial role in EFL classroom because it provides beneficial guidance and covers the materials that teachers need to deliver
Seif (2012) examined the higher order thinking activation in reading sections of English textbooks distributed in Palestine
Descriptive statistics was employed in presenting the results of data analysis to show the higher order thinking features of the English textbook
Summary
In English language teaching process, English textbooks performs a substantial role in EFL classroom because it provides beneficial guidance and covers the materials that teachers need to deliver. As one language activities, reading is a crucial part that stimulates higher order thinking skills because the students need to analyze and synthesize what they have read. An effective English textbook must have relevant reading perhaps followed by exercises and questions. Those exercises assist students to understand the teaching material and to know their ability in reading as the basic skill of the language. By giving the questions, reading exercises should involve higher order thinking skills due to the involvement of five scientific processes on 2013 curricula.
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