Glower de Alvarado, Ana MariaOrtega Alas, Alfredo2024-01-292024-01-291988-01-01https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14492/13333The English majors at the Foreign Language Department of the University of El Salvador have difficulties in listening, in writing, and in oral production, even after taking the Reading and Conversation courses intended to have students acquire skills for a better performance in the upper level, and whose contents have to be understood with less difficulty. Such difficulties in mastering the linguistic material which students face after having taken the Reading and Conversation in English at the University of El Salvador block the achievement of the proposed objectives of the courses in the upper level .In addition, the approach, techniques, the planning and the procedures for the Reading and Conversation courses have not been revised and i mp roved; even though there have been some efforts to do it by teacher of these courses, the results have not been satisfactory.es-SVReading and conversation courselearning processskillsperformancestudents of the foreing language department420Thesis