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Tesis (doctorado) Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires 2005.

Teachers have frequently experienced and expressed the fact that students lack proficiency in Reading Comprehension, even in their native linguaculture, when they take up foreign language learning or even Teacher/Translator Training Courses at an intermediate or advanced level. Therefore, the purpose of this Thesis is to show that textual skills should be developed in the first phase to ensure that students achieve proficiency in the target language. At a later stage, the acquired knowledge by the practice of productive/communicative language activities.