Teachers and translators : enhancing their reading and writing skills

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Using challenging magazine and newspaper articles for post-intermediate and advanced lenguage acquisition has always been a priority in ESP (English for Specific Purposes). Such articles enable active and vibrant professional dialogues as well as reading and writing enhancement involving research in such fields as journalese, legal and business English, among others. At this stage of a Teacher of Translator Training Course, students are expected to develop and master a multi-strand syllabus in general, with the purpose of ensuring that grammar, vocabulary, skills, functional language and pronunciation are consolidated and extended through natural and realistic contexts and are all designed in a systematic way through the course. This book is organized around discourse-oriented specialized texts to highlight varieties of English and encourage language awareness concerning style, wordplay, figures of speech, coinages and at the same time, favour learners' critical thinking skills.