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Description
The commercial EFL textbooks follow the trend of integrating language skills and critical thinking skills as seen in Pathways 3: Reading, Writing and Critical Thinking (Second Edition) textbook written by Blass, Vargo, and Folse (2013) used for the second-year students at Faculty of English, University of Foreign Language Studies – The University of Danang. This study aims to investigate the second-year students’ perceptions of the effectiveness of using critical thinking skills into improving reading comprehension. Based on the framework of critical thinking framework developed by Paul and Elder (2006) and the provided critical thinking skills embedded in the textbook, this study is designed to be quantitative by conducting a questionnaire among 120 second-year students at the end of the school year to find out the results. The findings suggest that students consider the critical thinking skills in the textbook to be moderately to highly effective in enhancing their reading comprehension. The study offers insights into critical thinking skills by adapting the textbook to more effectively enhance EFL reading comprehension.
Biography
Ngo, T. H. T. has 15 years of teaching experience at Faculty of English, UFLS-UD, Vietnam. She got her Ph.D. in 2024 in the English Language. Her expertise and interests include language teaching methodology and the English language. She has published papers in conference proceedings, WOS and SCOPUS journals and has successfully defended scientific researches.
