Touria Drid is Associate Professor in applied linguistics at Kasdi Merbah University, Algeria and a former secondary school professor. She has MA (Linguistics and ELT) and Ph.D (Applied Linguistics) from Mentouri Brothers University, Algeria. She has an instructional experience extending over twenty years. She teaches a variety of content and skill-based undergraduate and postgraduate courses, including discourse analysis, applied linguistics, writing and research methodology. Her main areas of research have focused on academic writing, the study of argumentation, genre analysis, pragmatics, culture-specific aspects of writing, Arabic-English intercultural communication and contrastive rhetoric studies. She has published a number of journal papers on argumentative writing, pragma-dialectics, the speech act theory and assessing EFL writing. She currently directs a number of Master and doctoral research projects in ELT.