Dr. Siti Sarah Fitriani, S.Pd., M.A.
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.