COGNITIVE FEATURE STAGES OF TASKS IN INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION 3 STUDENT’S BOOK BY AMERICAN CORNER UNTAN: A REVISED BLOOM’S TAXONOMY ANALYSIS

Journal of English Educational Study (JEES) Volume 6 Issue 2 November 2023 Page 113-122 E-ISSN: 2655-0776 COGNITIVE DOMAIN OF TASKS IN INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION 3 PUPILS' BOOK BY AMERICAN CORNER UNTAN: A REVISED BLOOM'S TAXONOMY ANALYSIS Yosephine Fransiska Romana Nawawi, Sudarsono Sudarsono, Dwi Riyanti Tanjungpura University , , Submitted: 2023-05-05 Accepted: 2023-07-21 Abstract: This descriptive qualitative study aims to assess the relevance of the pupils' tasks to the revised Bloom's taxonomy cognitive domain and the prominent cognition aspect in the pupils' book. This study focuses on the English pupils' book, "International Communication 3, " brought out by American Corner UNTAN. This study was based on a phenomenon of inaccuracies of tasks in pupils' books. The tasks were reviewed using a proof inventory diagram of revised Bloom's Taxonomy based on the cognitive domain to categorize the task as either a query or an instructional task. The outcome revealed that the textbook has 102 tasks and 0 queries. The tasks were divided into 80 (78.43%) remembering, 4 (3.92%) comprehending, 10 (9.80%) implementing, 3 (2.94%) analyzing, 3 (2.94%) assessing, and 2 (1.96%) producing. The main bulk task was remembering the lowest section of the revised Bloom's taxonomy's cognitive domain. The quantity of low- and high-order thinking skill tasks in every unit is also variable. As a result, it is essential to do more than employ an English pupils' book as a teaching tool to upgrade pupils' critical thinking skills. Keywords: revised Bloom's taxonomy; cognitive feature stages; international communication INTRODUCTION A lesson book is a book that teachers and pupils use to lay the framework for classroom instruction. A lesson book covers contents and tasks designed to clarify a study topic. In an educational system, a book is a primary teaching and learning source (Seddighi et al., 2021). Thus, books containing English materials are essential, and teachers must be able to choose the appropriate one to use during the teaching and learning process (Nurhamsih & Syahrial, 2018). Moreover, lesson books are currently available in both print and digital editions. Meanwhile, English teachers frequently utilize lesson books as the principal teachinglearning resources. English lesson books provide various resources, guidance, and assignments to help pupils develop their English skills (Damayanti, 2018). They pull several tasks from a textbook to make it seem like a "piece of cake" to design exercises for their pupils. English teachers must control relevant lesson books that offer pupils desired materials. The substance and project in the books can impact what unfolds in the room to study. Furthermore, rational thought is one of the most important themes in the 2013 Curriculum that would be used in gaining knowledge. Critical reflection refers to the capacity to investigate and objectively evaluate anything. As a result, it is critical to examine the sorts of tasks found in an English lesson book. A book represents what pupils need. It is expected to be ideal for the readers. 113 Nawawi, Sudarsono, Riyanti. Cognitive Feature... Journal of English Educational Study (JEES) Volume 6 Issue 2 November 2023 Page 113-122 E-ISSN: 2655-0776 Besides, Bloom's Taxonomy is mentioned in the pedagogical aim of the cognitive domain. Benjamin S. Bloom, an American psychologist, proposed this postulation idea (Birlik, 2015). The capacity, which varies from low to high, is defined by the hierarchical structure. The objective of taxonomy is straightforward: to help teachers attain the goal of pedagogy. The Revised Bloom's Taxonomy is a practical approach for developing modules, distributing instruction, and evaluating learning. Bloom and Krathwohl (1956) categorize cognitive domains into awareness, approval process, investigation, distillation, and assessment. The cognitive domain of Bloom's taxonomy changed in the 1990s, and terminology or phraseology was employed. Remembering, comprehending, implementing, analyzing, assessing, and producing are all examples of cognitive abilities (Anderson & Krathwohl, 2011). Then, it is broken down into a low order of thinking for remembering, comprehending, and implementing and a high order for analyzing, assessing, and producing. Thus, a lesson book's proportionate shipment of high- and low-thinking order skills is critical because lesson book tasks influence the learning process, influencing future learning outcomes. This study aimed to establish the relevance of lesson book contents to the relational domain of Revised Bloom's Taxonomy (RBT) and the prominent cognition aspect of RBT since lesson books are essential instructional resources teachers must use to lay the groundwork for educating and student learning to meet curricular objectives. In the lesson book, Hartini et al. (2021), Sukma et al. (2020), Astuti (2017), and Febriyani et al. (2020) have completed various studies on HOTS and LOTS. However, the present research employed Krathwhol and Anderson's revised Bloom's taxonomy. The cognitive domain classified as HOTS in a lesson book is vital to achieving the curriculum aim of critical thinking as one of the 21st-century skills pupils must possess. It is also supported by Yang & Sianturi (2017), who report that variances most likely influenced pupils' performance in lesson book tasks and the required cognitive domain. The earlier research examining school lesson books reported that remembering was the dominant cognitive domain. Then, it was interesting to investigate American Corner UNTAN's International Communication 3 Pupils' Book utilizing the cognitive domain of Revised Bloom's Taxonomy (RBT). This lesson book was selected to incorporate the Reform Edition Curriculum 2013. This lesson book provided pupils with HOTS-based tasks. It is the final level for the International Communication (IC) Class course at American Corner UNTAN. Furthermore, studies on the subject have yet to be discovered. The researcher intended to investigate and analyze the tasks presented in the International Communication 3 Pupils' Book, published by American Corner UNTAN, for the sake of determining what level of a cognitive domain is 114 Nawawi, Sudarsono, Riyanti. Cognitive Feature... Journal of English Educational Study (JEES) Volume 6 Issue 2 November 2023 Page 113-122 E-ISSN: 2655-0776 detected in the tasks in this lesson book for IC students and whether lower or higher categories of thinking skills are the most prevalent in the book. As the primary responsibilities of a teacher include educating, teaching, guiding, directing, training, assessing, and evaluating pupils (Sinaga et al., 2019), teachers are expected to be able to enrich books with creations in the form of other appropriate and relevant activities originating from the social and natural environment of their respective regions. Thus, as the central controller in the classroom's teaching and learning process, th (...truncated)