Abstract

At the university level, students are taught and expected to use skills to research and gather relevant information and then write for academic purposes. Teachers are aware that students must be taught to acquire reading skills to become critical readers. To read critically means setting out to gather relevant information for academic task completion. It is indeed very different from reading a story book for leisure. Teachers are working zealously to improve students’ reading skills so that they become skillful critical readers. If planned well, a critical reading session would integratively develop skills not only in reading, but also in speaking, listening and writing. This paper seeks to establish the suitability and feasibility of Quranic verses in English in the reading classroom as a literary text. This literary text merged with the right techniques of teaching and right classroom activities would yield the same intended learning outcomes at the end of a critical reading session.