Augmenting Scientific Literacy through HOTS Instruction in EFL Classroom: Students’ Perception

This paper tries to denote students’ perception of the current practice of applying
Higher Order Thinking Skills in the classroom setting to enhance their scientific
literacy. The traditional monotonous teaching of Sociolinguistics has driven the
thought of this study. The pre-observation activity reveals that the sequence of
classroom movement is taken as a tedious and impractical mode in linguistics
learning. Students’ presentation and classroom discussion as the learning strategy,
which is defined in low-order thinking skills, let them sit in the classroom without
being engaged with the discussion. In learning with higher-order thinking applied, the
scientific literacy activities such as analyzing the sociolinguistics phenomena,
evaluating them in a certain way, and establishing ideas for further research in the
sociolinguistics area bring new perceptions to the learning.

Keywords: Students’ Perception, Scientific Literacy, HOTS