LOTS & HOTS Composition of Reading Comprehension Exercises on English Textbook Using Revised Bloom's Taxonomy

Indah Nabila, Dewi Rochsantiningsih

Abstract

This study aims to figure out the composition of Lower Order Thinking Skills (LOTS) and Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) in reading comprehension exercises obtained from the English textbook titled “English for Nusantara” for 8th grade Junior High School (SMP) students. This study also determines the most dominant cognitive level in each category (LOTS & HOTS) depending on the revised Bloom’s taxonomy. Every single reading comprehension exercise is examined using Content Analysis. The results discovered that the amount of exercises under the LOTS is wildly disproportionate, reaching 95.75% with the ‘remembering’ (C2) level becoming the dominant level. Meanwhile, the exercises under the Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) category barely account for 4.25% of the total. Therefore, the results indicate that the textbook fails to expose students to Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) topics as one way to train developing their critical thinking.

Keywords

Cognitive level; critical thinking; English textbook; reading comprehension; revised Bloom's taxonomy

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.20961/ee.v12i3.85937

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