OKARA: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra
Vol. 16 No. 1 (2022): OKARA: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra

An Evaluation of Indonesian Textbooks Using Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy

Denda Rinjaya (Linguistics Department, Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia, Depok 16424)
Sisilia Setiawati Halimi (Linguistics Department, Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia, Depok 16424)



Article Info

Publish Date
10 May 2022

Abstract

Implementing higher-order thinking skills into teaching-learning practice has become a priority for any teaching program anywhere today. This study aims to evaluate two books of BIPA (Bahasa Indonesia bagi Penutur Asing) 7 Sahabatku Indonesia (2019) based on the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy (RBT). The content analysis approach was used in this study to analyze research data in the form of instructions and questions classified using the RBT category. First, the analysis results showed that the instructions and questions in the two BIPA books were dominated by lower-order thinking skills (‘understanding' and 'remembering'). Second, although lower-order thinking skills dominated the instructions and questions in the two BIPA books, this study revealed that the majority of the instructions and questions classified as lower-order thinking skills in both textbooks analyzed can be changed into higher-order thinking skills. The findings of this study infer that the majority of instructions and questions in the BIPA 7 Sahabatku Indonesia need to be revised to encourage higher-order thinking skills-oriented teaching. These findings serve as a reminder for textbook writers of the importance of providing cognitive activities that can help learners develop both lower-order and higher-order thinking skills in textbooks.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

okara

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Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

The journal publishes research papers in the field of linguistics, literature, and language teaching, such as fundamentals of ELT, the sound of the word of the language, structure, meaning, language and gender, sociolinguistic, language philosophy, history of linguistic, origin/evolution, ...