Abdulaziz Alfehaid is a professor in the English language department at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Saudi Arabia). He obtained his MA and Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and TESOL from the School of Education at the University of Leicester, UK. He has taught applied linguistics and EFL, and consulted on assessment, program evaluation projects and pedagogy in ESL and adult education settings. His research focuses mainly on preparatory (first) year student retention, English language education, English for academic purposes, developing and evaluating preparatory year curriculum and programs and student transition.