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ABSTRACT Chintya Yosie: 2315.008 “An Analysis of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) used in English Textbook for Vocational High School of Ten Grade (X) at SMK N 2 Bukittinggi”. Thesis, English Section Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training State Islamic Institute of Bukittinggi (IAIN) 2019. The background of this research was there was an indication that the textbook used at SMK N 2 Bukittinggi did not provide enough Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) since the teacher used another sources as additional material while teaching process in order to maximize students’ higher order thinking skills. However, Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) is an unquestionable demand that the education in this 21st century should provide to its students where one of the way is can be done by providing it in students English textbook as one of salient instrument of teaching learning process. Based on this phenomenon, researcher conducted a study to find out the existence of HOTS in students EFL textbook. The design of this research was descriptive qualitative. The source of data was textbook as primary data, and the teacher as secondary data. The technique of data collection was the documentation of the instructions in the textbook. The results of this research was the EFL textbook showed that there were Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) contained in the instructions of the textbook. There were 33 instructions that contained HOTS, those are: 13 instructions of Analyze (C4), 5 instructions of Evaluate (C5), and 15 instructions of Create (C6). However, the instruction that contained HOTS does not contain the aspect of C4, C5, and C6 in every chapter, some of the instruction on the chapter even directly contain C6. Meanwhile the good criteria of instruction should contained every HOTS (C4, C5, C6) in it in order to maximize the achievement of students’ Higher Order Thinking Skills since it helped students to connected knowledge, critical thinking and creative thinking. In summary, English textbook that used at SMKN 2 Bukittinggi already contained HOTS yet it did not supply adequate HOTS in every chapter as the criteria of good instruction. Key words: Textbook, Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)