%0 Journal Article %T Argumentaci¨®n y didaxis %A Reynoso %A Marcela %A Sforza %A M¨®nica %A Rosa %A Bernarda %A Waigandt %A Diana %A Leiva %A Gabriela %J Ciencia, docencia y tecnolog£¿-a %D 2009 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X this paper presents a case study that explored the incidence of the systematization and conceptualization of discourse mechanisms present in highly argumentative texts to be read in a foreign language (english and french) as part of nonlinguistic undergraduate curricula. to attain this goal, two main tasks were pursued: first, the analysis of a set of texts (corpus) following the principles of natural logic. from this perspective, the reading process, understood from a cognitive view, can also be considered from a semiolinguistic conception under bajtinian influence. second, the teaching of the findings -conceived as an activity that relates practice to theory- enables the latter to acquire a new dimension as the former is constantly revised. the results obtained show that didactic intervention favours learning processes as a closer interaction between reader-author of the text is attained. %K discourse analysis %K teaching %K argumentation %K comprehension %K foreign languages. %U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1851-17162009000200002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en