He obtained his PhD degree from Leicester University, England in 2001. He is now affiliated with the Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics at Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran. He teaches Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Research Methods, and Materials Development at postgraduate level. He has three books on research methods, language teaching, and letter writing. He has published 30 articles in scholarly journals and has presented numerous papers at both national and international conferences.