Dr. Nadia Abid is an Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Letters and Humanities, University of Sfax. Her research focuses on intercultural language learning and teaching across diverse educational contexts, including classrooms, study abroad programs, and virtual exchanges. She is particularly interested in exploring the development of intercultural communicative competence, the intercultural dimensions of English language textbooks, intercultural identity construction, and global and intercultural citizenship education. Her work also examines the application of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) in the study of educational discourse. Dr. Abid has co-edited three collective volumes in collaboration with colleagues from the Faculty of Letters and Humanities of Sfax.
Her research interests include Linguistics, Media and Journalism studies, Discourse Analysis, Forensic studies, Systemic Functional Linguistics and Cognitive Linguistics.
SYFLAT is an academic association interested in the field of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), a school of linguistics founded by the British linguist M. A. K. Halliday in 1961, and then developed and applied to many other fields.