The author, who obtained her M.Sc. in TESOL from University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, currently works as a lecturer at the English Language Education Department, Faculty of Education and Humanities of Universitas Kristen Duta Wacana (UKDW), Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The Editor-in-Chief of SAGA Journal UKDW, she is also a reviewer of IJELTAL journal published by IAIN Samarinda. Her research interest includes L2 learner’s individual differences, Global Englishes, L2 writing, critical literacies, and literature. Throughout her teaching career, she has taught students from various levels of education, including teaching ESP to Medical students and Biology students as well as teaching non-English teachers of High Schools. Though her specialty is in English instruction, she was once also a teacher of the Indonesian language at Arizona State University from 2013 to 2014.