Siti Sarah Fitriani
Universitas Syiah Kuala
Indonesia

Siti Sarah Fitriani was born in Medan, 24 August 1981. She is a lecturer at the English Language Education Department of Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh – Indonesia. She completed her Bachelor degree majoring in English Education at Syiah Kuala University in 2006. She finished her PhD program at University of New England (UNE), Armidale – Australia. Before taking her PhD candidacy at UNE, she had completed her Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney - Australia. Her research interest is in literacy, language teaching methods and approaches, including the use of genre approach for teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL), especially metacognition, and communicative language teaching generally. She has taught EFL for more than 7 years at Syiah Kuala University, Aceh, Indonesia. She established a private foundation, Goodman Language Training, where she also teachers of EFL. She has attended and presented at national and international conferences. She is now a reviewer for SiELE and EEJ journal publications. She is also the editor-in-chief for the English Education Journal.

Nira Erdiana
Universitas Syiah Kuala
Indonesia

An English lecturer at Universitas Syiah Kuala, Indonesia

Iskandar Abdul Samad
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Universitas Syiah Kuala; Scopus ID: 57203240696
Indonesia

Iskandar Abdul Samad is an alumni of University of New England (UNE), Australia. He completed his PhD degree at this university in 2015. His research interest is in language teaching methods and approaches, including the use of genre approach for teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and communicative language teaching generally. Before completing his PhD at UNE, he had completed his Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics at Macquarie University (MQ), Australia in 2007. He has taught English as a Foreign Language for more than 15 years at Syiah Kuala University (Unsyiah), Aceh, Indonesia. He established a private foundation, Rumoh Bahasa, where he also teaches EFL. Iskandar is an avid reader and writer. He has attended and presented papers at national and international conferences and written books on teaching English for novice students.