Wagdi Rashad Ali Bin-Hady is currently an Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at Hadhramout University, Faculty of Education Socotra and the Head of the English Department, Yemen. He received his PhD degree in English in 2016 from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, India. His research interests include communicative competence, novice teachers, cooperative learning, ICT-based informal learning, language learning strategies, task- based and process-genre approaches. He is also interested in quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods research design. He is also a reviewer in some respected international journals. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4116-113X