Dr. NESBA Asma is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of English at El-Oued University, Algeria. She holds a BA degree in English Studies from Ecole Normale Supérieure of Ouargla ; Magister degree in ESP from Kasdi Merbah University; PHD degree in ‘Didactics of English as a Foreign Language’ from Djilali Liabes university in Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria. Previously, she was a teacher of English at the high school from 1997 to 2015. She was also an Associate Teacher at the University of Continuing Education of El- Oued from 2003 to 2015. Her research interests are: English for Specific Purposes, Discourse studies, Corpus Linguistics and Discourse analysis.