AN ASSESSMENT OF THINKING SKILLS IN ENGLISH SKILLS FOR THE FUTURE FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL GRADE XII
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.36582/jotell.v2i2.5881Keywords:
Thinking Skill, Bloom Taxonomy, EFL, Assessment, EFL StudentsAbstract
In 2013 Indonesia developed a brand new scientific based English instruction curriculum that emphasized the growth of communicative competence In addition the curriculum aims to develop students thinking skills so that they can function as independent responsible and critical learners who are able to communicate effectively in English As a direct consequence of this authors of textbooks either called for the creation of brand new textbooks tailored to the new curriculum and its four domains or attempted to adapt existing textbooks to the new curriculum As a result numerous books have been written for 7th grade SMP MTs and 12th grade SMA SMK Aliah The study sought to determine whether textbooks encourage critical thinking and the proportion of various thinking skills Due to the textbooks as the data source the current study was classified as a content analysis Based on the results it can be seen that the majority of the items are strategically located in L1 Remember with two hundred sixty one questions 67 percent followed by ninety two questions 23 percent in L2 Understand twenty four questions 6 percent allocated in L3 Apply and the remaining nine questions 2 percent in L4 Analyze Consequently the textbook described the lower order thinking level s prioritization Although there was not a uniform distribution of each thinking level the textbook promoted critical thinking in the EFL learning process and encouraged students to investigate their lower thinking level < p>
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