PROMOTING COLLABORATIVE LEARNING TO FACILITATE COMMUNICATION AMONG CONGOLESE EFL LEARNERS

Abstract

This research paper addresses critical reading as a reading process in English as a foreign language class. It concentrates on a process in which learners should be actively exposed to question, judge, evaluate, understand texts in order to improve their reading skills. This process may be defined as a paramount process to be developed during the reading classes to help learners improving their comprehension skills through approaching texts with a critical eye.This study investigates on developing critical reading through questioning some Kinshasa’s EFL teachers and suggesting them to develop critical reading in an EFL reading class Program in order to let learners face different reading materials at school.The findings of this investigation show that EFL teachers do not help EFL learners developing critical reading or do not give learners the opportunity of judging, questioning, evaluating and understanding texts’ information. The Results also indicate that teachers are not always introducing critical reading to EFL learners to improve their reading and comprehension skills.