This article outlines the suggestion of critical-thinking and problem-solving into methodto teach English reading to Indonesian EFL students. Since both terms could beelusively conceived by broad members of English language teacher or instructor andalso the increasing demand of advance English proficiency, it could be perceived thatpicking up critical-thinking and problem-solving into teaching English reading in theEFL classroom would benefit to both teachers and students’ classroom achievementregarding to their distinguished purposes on the language ability. The study wasconducted through reviewing a number of literatures outlining the implementation ofthe method in teaching English reading in the EFL classrooms. Moreover, the study alsoinvestigated the strengths and the weaknesses of the implementation of the methodlooked up through the vary of variables and cases on its implementation. It could beexpected that this article could propose an idea to teaching English more effectively,efficiently, and advancing teachers and students’ level of English language competence