My name is Ahmed Al Mata’ni, and I hold a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with an ESOL/Bilingual Education specialization from the University of Florida. I have a master’s degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Since 2003, I have been teaching ESL, EFL, critical thinking, public speaking, as well as interpersonal communication in Oman and the USA. My areas of expertise are accreditation, applied linguistics, and assessment. My transdisciplinary research agenda draws from multiple strands, including computer-assisted language learning (CALL), teacher education, curriculum development, social justice, and critical race theory (CRT). More recently, my research examines topics that are centered around Raciolinguistic perspective and the decolonial turn. I have presented his research on numerous local and international platforms. I am also a member of some specialized professional associations such as TESOL, TESOL Arabia, Florida Association for Bilingual Education (FABE) and the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). Last but not least, I am also a reviewer in the Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, who assesses research article submissions to the journal.