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The Asian EFL Journal October 2020 Volume 27, Issue 4.3 Senior Editor: Paul Robertson 1 Published by the English Language Education Publishing Asian EFL Journal A Division of TESOL Asia Group Part of SITE Ltd Australia http://www.asian-efl-journal.com ©Asian EFL Journal 2020 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of the Asian EFL Journal Press. No unauthorized photocopying All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the Asian EFL Journal. [email protected] Publisher: English Language Education (ELE) Publishing Chief Editor: Dr. Paul Robertson Associate Production Editor: Ramon Medriano Jr. Assistant Copy Editor: Eva Guzman ISSN 1738-1460 2 Asian EFL Journal Research Articles. Vol. 27 Issue No. 4.3 October 2020 Table of Contents Wahidah, Muhammad Idris and Resky Yuliana……………………..…...……….............................................. 5 High Order Thinking Skill (HOTS) Principles in Developing Students Worksheet Aris Badara, Hanna, Achmat Saepul, Citra Marhan and Yuliastri Ambar Pambudhi………..…………...... 17 Psychological Factors that Hinder Students' Reading Comprehension Ambo Dalle, Johar Amir and Amirullah Abduh……...………….…………...………………………………… 30 A Constrastive Approach on Foreign Languages: German and English Tenses Harwati Hashim, Melor Md. Yunus and Nur Yasmin Khairani Zakaria……………………………………... 40 Pre-University ESL Learners’ Attitude Towards M-Learning: An Investigation on the Moderating Role of Gender Edward Jay M. Quinto, Eunbi Kwon and Marianne Jennifer M. Gaerlan ….………………………….......... 65 What does competence mean during the transition to language teaching?Insights from future-oriented identities of Filipino NLTs Yongming Luo…………….……………………………………………………….…………………..................... 87 Situating the Rhetoric in Nelson Mandela’s Oratorical Speech Shoaib Saeed Fahady ……………........................................................................................................................... 100 Assessing EFL Post Graduate Students’ Writing Skills Muhammad Ali, Sadia Ali and Muhammad Usman Ghani …………………………………………………….. 112 Pakistani Textbooks and Native English Corpora: A Corpus-Based Comparative Analysis of Lexical Collocations Muhammad Ajmal, Saleh Alrasheedi and Dr. Zahoor Hussain……………...…………………………………. 130 The Semantics of the Modal Verbs: A Corpus-based Analysis of Manipulation and Ideology in Literary Text(s) Shaima M. Saalh and Hind Salim…………………………………………..…………………………………….. 152 The Habits of Mind in Constructing Typical EFL Teacher's Stereotypes Shaima M. Saalh…………………………………………………………………………………..……………….. 173 The Effect of Flow as a Strategy on EFL Student-teachers' Performance and their Flow Iftikhar Alam and Akhter Habib Shah………………………………………..………………………………….. 193 Investigating the Impact of Social Networks on English Writing Anxiety of the Common First-Year Students Rasib Mahmood, Tariq Rasheed and Shouket Ahmad Tilwani …………….……………………….…….......... 219 Effect of Stress Perception of L1 on L2: A Case Study of Pakistani (Punjabi) Students Mohammad Shariq and Abdullah H. Alfauzan………......................................................................................... 238 The Role of Social Media in Creating Social Awareness of COVID-19 Pandemic in Saudi Arabia: An Empirical Study 3 Ahdi Hassan, Asma Shahid Kazi, Asmara Shafqat and Zubair Ahmed............................................................ 260 The Impact of Process Writing on the Language and Attitude of Pakistani English Learners Ericson Alieto, Bernadeth Abequibel and Criselda Ricohermoso...................................................................... 278 An Investigation on Digital and Print Reading Attitudes: Samples from Filipino Preservice Teachers from a Non-metropolitan-based University Mary Rose A. Natividad.......................................................................................................................................... 312 Difficulties of Pre-Service Teachers in Oral Communication Skills Fahad Saleh Suleiman Alfallaj and Ahmed Ali Hassan Al-Ma'amari................................................................ 336 Linguistic mobility as representative of Class Configuration: COVID-induced changes Arif Ahmed Mohammed Hassan Al-Ahdal and Fahd Hamad Alqasham.......................................................... 356 Saudi EFL Learning and Assessment in Times of Covid-19: Crisis and Beyond Muhammad Ajmal, Tribhuwan Kumar and Akhter Habib Shah........................................................................ 384 The Application of Literary Text in Language Classroom: A Pedagogical Stylistics Perspective Keith H. Cipriano, Krisha Camille R. Angoluan and Ariane Milagrosa T. Pantaleon...................................... 403 It’s a (Wo)Man’s World: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Female and Male Relationship Dynamics 4 Asian EFL Journal Research Articles. Vol. 27 Issue No. 4.3 October 2020 High Order Thinking Skill (HOTS) Principles in Developing Students Worksheet Wahidah Muhammad Idris Resky Yuliana Muhammadiyah University, Parepare Indonesia Bio-profiles: Wahidah was born in Bone on August 16, 1968. She is a teacher of SMPN 3 Parepare South Sulawesi. She got her Bachelor Degree at STKIP Muhammadiyah and Graduate Program at Muhammadiyah Universty of Parepare. She is interested in Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, and TESOL. Email: [email protected] Muhammad Idris was born in Selayar on July 17, 1979 and now he is a postgraduate student at Universitas Muhammadiyah, Parepare. His research deals with English language teaching (ELT). He can be reached at [email protected]. Resky Yuliana was born on Balikpapan June 26, 1995. She got her Bachelor Degree at Muhammadiyah University of Parepare in 2017. She is a graduate program student at Muhammadiyah Universty of Parepare. Email: [email protected] Abstract Worksheet in the textbook takes a leading role in the English learning process because it assists the students to practice their ability to get a good achievement in the teaching and learning process. Hence, the worksheet is beneficial for the teachers to know the students’ understanding of the teaching material and students’ accomplishment in four basic skill. Reading ability plays a crucial role in students’ education. It is a language teachers’ mission to be aware of the useful and beneficial strategies to improve their students’ reading comprehension ability. When education around the world needs improvement, the teacher demands to more competitive in developing the students’ task. HOTS principle is one of good 5 strategies to achieve target learning. Moreover, the HOT Skills that are needed in solving problems in learning can be distinguished into two kinds of skills namely analytical and creative thinking skills. Analytical thinking skill is useful in thinking critically and selecting the best alternative. In another hand, the creative thinking skill involves finding or identifying problems, supporting efficiency or producing many ideas, producing a broad range of ideas, originality or producing uncommon ideas and elaboration or developing ideas. Eventually, this paper’s aim is to develop the insight of students in mastering English, especially in reading Comprehension skill. Keywords: Higher Order Thinking Skill (HOTS), Reading Comprehension, Worksheet Introduction Every country around the world busies in discussing about the development of education in every sector. It is the answer to face the world challenge, mainly for the human resources development. All of the experts always make an experiment to look for the solution through many ways. Year by year, the expert finds the key to solve the recent problem. Indonesia is the one of the country in this world that always builds the new revolution to break the foolishness in every level through the renewable education system. As we know that Indonesia has changed the education curriculum about ten times as the appropriate method in resolve each case in every element when the implementation of the curriculum has any trouble. It must be a big dealing that Indonesia is very large and the spreading of prosperity not perfect yet. Of course, it is the extra homework for us to provide the alternative way when apply the curriculum in an appropriate circumstance. Especially for English as the second language for Indonesian people, it will arise any problem in education sector. English is an obligatory subject in school – start from junior high school until the high education level – has its own role in the education development to build our best generation to joining in the world competition. As the importance of language skill, English is difficult for some people. That is why some of them register themselves in a course to add hours in learning English after back to school. Moreover, the private course is reputed more effective in guiding the students in mastery English. This reputation makes the learning English in school seems fail in improving the student skills. And also, the teacher looks cannot find an interesting way to take the students attention in learn English. Moreover, the thinking and learning process can be subject to some factors. First, each type of learning requires a different strategy, because there is no single strategy that can be used for all types of