King Saud University, Saudi Arabia

About the author(s):

Ali SHEHADEH is an associate professor in the Department of English, University of Aleppo, Syria, and currently teacher at the College of Languages and Translation, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. He has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in linguistics, applied linguistics, research methodology, and writing and composition. He also supervised and examined several M.A. and Ph.D. dissertations in the United Kingdom, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. His areas of interest include SLA, teaching methodology, and task-based learning and instruction. His research papers and reviews have appeared in the English Teaching Forum, English Teaching Professional, ELT Journal, TESOL Quarterly, Language Learning, and System.