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Resumen: The aims of a language-teaching course are often defined with reference to four "language skills": listening, speaking, reading and writing. What are the estudents expected to understund when we refer to these four skills? A selection of lexical items combined with syntactic structure? An ability to produce correct sentences? According to Widdowson, "usage" is language viewed as isolated items of grammatical structure and "use" is the language used to express ideas in meaningful communicative behaviour and to achieve some kind of communicative purpose. That is, language ia s vehicle for communication. Speaking and writing have benn said to be active or productive skills, and, listening and reading, passive or receptive skills.

Resumen: 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.

Resumen: Teachers and Translators: Enhancing their Reading and Writing Skills recommends that language teachers incorporate the reading and writing connection together with the influence of L1 culture as essential elements to achieve textual competence in the target language. The use of challenging magazine and newspaper articles with post-intermediate and advanced language learners has always been a priority in ESP (English for Specific Purposes). The purpose is to activate students' background knowledge, consolidate their critical thinking skills, raise their awareness in relation to varieties of English, figures of speech and coinages and, at the same time, encourage classroom research in such fields as journalese, legal and business English. Expository essay-writing is also incorporated in the course, following such patterns as the Comparison and Contrast essay and the Classification form.