Critical thinking is one of the special types of mental activity, which is aimed at interpreting the world around and evaluating the expected results. This article discusses the process of formation and development of critical thinking among students of non-linguistic specialties during teaching a foreign language using authentic materials in English, ways of developing critical thinking of students, features of the process of teaching reading and also reading as a process in learning a foreign language, shows the stages of organization reading. The relevance of the article is due to the fact that the technology for the development of critical thinking is one of the modern and innovative pedagogical technologies, and the use of authentic texts while teaching a foreign language is one of the promising ways to include cognitive functions in the work, as well as expand the horizons of students. The article also shows a survey of teachers of a foreign language (English) in order to show the need for the development of critical thinking. The purpose of this study is to find effective methods and ways of developing critical thinking skills in non-linguistic students using authentic texts and applying them in practice.

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