Sajjad Pouromid has been working part time at Kansai University as a trainer in the Faculty Development program since 2016. He earned a PhD in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) from Arak University in his home country, Iran. He is also currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Critical Studies in Transformative Education at Osaka University, Japan. Sajjad has experience teaching English for general and academic purposes, and his research interests include language teacher cognition and conversation analytic studies of second language classroom interactions.