The teaching of thinking skills is important as it helps in promoting better learning and producing quality and skilled students. Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) represent more sophisticated and context-rich thinking processes that include critical, logical, reflective, metacognitive, and creative thinking and thus, HOTS become key ‘ingredients’ in the education system in most countries, including Malaysia. The purpose of this study is to examine teachers’ perceptions on the use of HOTS in language teaching as well as the constraints faced by them in doing so. A research survey was conducted to 144 English teachers in Hulu Langat, Selangor. The descriptive analysis indicated that overall, teachers had positive perceptions towards the use of HOTS in language teaching. Student-related constraints are the constraints with highest mean score (M= 3.49). Despite their positive perceptions on this matter, most of them still believe that they need to undergo more courses and trainings on the teaching of HOTS. The implications of this study are also discussed in this paper