Negotiation Between Professional Peers: Critical Strategy for a Reading and Writing Program at the University Level

Abstract The following paper focuses on the description and exemplification of a strategy which is the core of the Academic Reading and Writing Program (PROLEA, for its acronym in Spanish) conducted at the Universidad de Flores (UFLO), in Argentina: the "negotiation between professional peers" or "negotiation between teaching partners". The Program's pedagogic design is based on the Sydney School's developments in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The negotiation between peers comprises the work between a professor on academic and professional literacies, who is a member of the Program, a...