He completed his Master’s degree in applied linguistics in 2007 at King Saud University. He worked as an MA thesis examiner during his Ph.D. candidature and as an academic editor for the Asian ESP Journal. He has published a number of papers in refereed academic journals, as well as in journals listed in Thomson’s Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) database. His research interests include systemic functional linguistics, academic literacies, metadiscourse, multimodal discourse analysis, reading comprehension, and the use of Web 2.0 technology in higher education. He has more than 25 years of experience in teaching ESL/E FL students.