He received his doctoral degree from the University of Reading, UK and has also studied at the universities of Nottingham, Birmingham, and Wales. He has wide overseas teaching experience at schools and universities in the Gulf, Africa and Asia and has published widely in the area of educational and applied linguistics. He has recently returned from a research visit to Namibia, SW Africa, where he has collected additional research data on cross cultural differences in reading comprehension to add to that published in his book, 'Reading Comprehension and Text Organization' (Edwin Mellen Press, 2003).