Amparo Hurtado Albir (2009) proposes that, in addition to the four language competences (listening, reading, speaking and writing), there is also a fifth one, which she calls Translation Competence. As she sees it, such competence consists in joining linguistic competences with extra-linguistic ones – i.e. of an overt cultural, psychophysiological, and strategic character. Strategic competence, in her view, may be deemed the most important one among all the aforementioned. Considering the development of Translation Competence for foreign language students, with a special focus on its strategic aspect, it is correct to affirm that: