ANALYSIS OF HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS IN READING EXERCISES OF AN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK ENTITLED BAHASA INGGRIS UNTUK SMA KELAS X BY GRAFINDO MEDIA PRATAMA BASED ON BLOOM’S TAXONOMY REVISION

There are two goals of the current study, the first goal is to investigate the distribution of the Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) in the reading exercises in Bahasa Inggris untuk SMA/MA/SMK/MAK Kelas X by Grafindo Media Pratama, and the second goal is to know the difficulties encountered by students when completing HOTS-based reading exercises. This study employed a qualitative descriptive approach combined with content analysis. The object of this research is an English textbook used by Senior High School students in the tenth grade, namely Bahasa Inggris untuk SMA/MA/SMK/MAK Kelas X by Grafindo Media Pratama. The subjects of this research were the tenth-grade students of MA Muhammadiyah 1 Malang in the 2023/2024 academic year. Simple random sampling was used to choose the sample. The data collection techniques the researcher used in this research are document checklist and interview. The findings from the first research question showed that the allocation of higher-order cognitive abilities on questions followed the reading text in the review section of each chapter included 39 items (88.6%) for analyzing, 5 items (11.4%) for evaluating, and nothing (0%) for creating. Additionally, the result findings from the second research question showed that there are four difficulties faced by students in completing HOTS-based reading exercises, those are: (1) difficulty in determining main idea (2) difficulty in grammar mastery (3) difficulty in maintaining focus, (4) difficulty in understanding the vocabulary.