S. TOULMIN’S ARGUMENT MODEL- BASIS FOR DEVELOPING CRITICAL THINKING COMPETENCY IN TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION: A CASE STUDY OF VIETNAM

Abstract

While critical thinking has been studied extensively with many approaches around the world, in Vietnam, understanding and applying critical thinking in general as well as in specific fields are still limited. This article studies the situation of developing critical thinking competency in teaching reading comprehension of literary texts to students. On that basis, Toulmin’s argument model is proposed as a tool for building a system of questions to develop critical thinking competency in teaching reading comprehension.