Nani Ronsani Thamrin, Pratomo Widodo, Margana
Higher order thinking skills (HOTS) play an important role in developing learning materials for reading comprehension. The major purpose of this paper is to know the problems rose in reading comprehension and to identify the development of higher order thinking skills for the students' Kuningan University. This paper discussed the phenomenon of Reading comprehension enhancement through Higher Order Thinking Skill (HOTS) strategy in Kuningan University and describes how the HOTS strategy develop the students' skills in comprehending the academic reading text. The data collected by using a classroom observation in mobile and interview between student and the result will be discussed in the class, were analyzed qualitatively by using categories formulated based on theories related HOTS stategy. As a result, the author obtains the strategy Higher order Thinking skills on reading comprehension seen from the C1-C6 phase of HOTS strategy. This indicates that the most of students have higher order thinking skills in comprehending the text.. The findings are expected to be references for English teachers in the implementation of teaching strategy. © 2019 IOP Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.
Universitas Kuningan, West-Java, Indonesia; Universitas Negeri, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
