Abstract name : rahma aprilia isa student no. : 1406102020053 department/program : english education/undergraduate title : the use of think pair share (tps) technique to improve students’ critical thinking in reading skill. keywords: think pair share technique, reading skill, high order thinking (hot) questions, critical thinking the goal of this study is to know the improvement of students’ critical thinking in answering high order thinking (hot) questions in reading skill taught by think pair share technique. the subjects of this study were the eleventh grade students and an english teacher at sman 07 banda aceh. qualitative study used as a method to obtain the data. to analyse the data, the researcher observed the students’ activities through teaching learning process in answering high order thinking (hot) questions in reading class and interviewed the teacher as an informant. from the result of data analysis revealed that the students’ critical thinking improved after