​Haifa Al-Nofaie is a full professor of applied linguistics at the Department of Foreign Language, Taif University, Saudi Arabia. She does research in Discourse & Conversation Analysis, and TESOL. She has published research papers in journals indexed in the Web of Science, Scopus and other valid research databases. She was one of the series cultural advisors of Q: Skills for Success, a special edition for Saudi Arabia, by Oxford University Press.