Keywords: Critical Thinking Skills, Literary Analysis, Approaches

Critical thinking skills can be obtained through literary analysis. Literature is a branch of art that undergoes a growth process in line with the passage of time and the development of people's minds. Literature in the teaching and learning process can create a critical thinking process. Students will practice expressing opinions, concluding, explaining cause-and-effect relationships, comparing facts, and applying the ideas they have gained from literature to new situations.

This research used descriptive quantitative. The sample of this study is students of English Language Education Study Program batch 2018 that have taken literary analysis class. The empirical data needed in this research are observation of implementation of literary analysis in the classroom and questioners of classroom reflection based on critical thinking indicators.

Findings of the research showed that the implementation of the instruction of literary analysis learning class through observation sheets, it can be said that the implementation has been going well. It found that students conduct 80% of the critical thinking skills indicators. In addition, analyzing literary works can trigger students to think critically to the level of HOTS (high order thinking skills) because students have entered stage 6 in the critical thinking sequence, namely "Creating" which results in an analysis paper.