Mohammed NAOUA is a Full Professor of applied linguistics at the University of El Oued, Algeria. Prof. NAOUA holds a PhD in applied linguistics. His other research interests include English Language Teaching – English for Specific Purposes – Language Testing and Assessment – Syllabus Design – Second Language Acquisition – Pragmatics and Discourse analysis – Language Policy and Planning as well as Sociolinguistics. Prof. NAOUA published a number of research papers on different fields of applied linguistics, and also participated in a large number of international conferences.