El-Sadig Ezza, based in Sudanese and Saudi tertiary institutions for a quarter century, has been involved in teaching under- and post-graduate classes, supervising post-graduate dissertations, implementing community service programmes, publishing scientific research, and participating in local, regional, and international conferences. All these activities have regularly been enhanced by professional training in teaching methods and strategies, research methodology, and institutional accreditation principles and standards. The editor also been training graduate students and novice scholars in disciplinary writing conventions.
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.