Dr. Negmeldin Alsheikh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum ‎and Instruction, College of Education, UAE University. He previously taught at the ‎State University of New York (SUNY), Plattsburgh, NY, USA. He currently teaches and ‎supervises Ph.D. and Master’s students at the UAEU. His research area of interest ‎includes teaching practices, curriculum and instruction, multimodal literacy, ‎biliteracy, metacognition, reading, writing, L1 and L2 learning, and acquisition. He ‎gave presentations on literacy, multiliteracies, reading, and language learning at ‎various international conferences. Additionally, he published several research ‎articles in refereed journals, books, and book chapters related to his area of ‎expertise.