“…In recent years, research investigating the teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL) reading in tertiary levels worldwide has been much focused on investigating the effects of teaching strategies on learners' reading skill (Chin, 2019;Chou, 2021;Kung, 2019;Roohani & Asiabani, 2015) as well as scrutinizing various related aspects to reading activity such as strategies (Par, 2020), materials (Erlina et al, 2016), and affective factors that affect reading comprehension (Žolgar-Jerkovic et al, 2018). Until the present time, very limited investigations that have systematically explored the tertiary teacher educators' experiences in teaching EFL reading in terms of their concepts and approaches to teaching critical reading (see Okkinga et al, 2018;Villalonga-Penna, 2020). Looking at this gap, there is a need to examine the underlying conceptions of teaching critical reading enacted by tertiary EFL teachers, particularly in the Indonesian EFL context.…”