Nawawi is a lecturer in English Language Teaching at English Language Education Program, Faculty of Education the Mataram University of Mataram. He has been a lecturer and has started his career here since 1991. He completed his under graduate study in English Education from the University of Mataram in 1986. He went to Deakin University Melbourne-Australia to earn his Master of Arts (M.A) degree in Applied Linguistics under AUSAID Scholarship program in 1996. He obtained his doctorate degree in English Teaching from State University of Jakarta, Indonesia in 2015. He has devoted his interest and research in teaching English Language Teaching (ELT) methodologies, Designing Lesson Plan Development and Language Teaching Assessment.