Sayit Abdul Karimcompleted his undergraduate program from Faculty of Education for Language and Arts, majoring in English Education, Institute of Teacher Training and Education (IKIP) Mataram. He received his master’s from Universitas Negeri Semarang, and Ph.D. from Universitas Negeri Malang. He is a faculty member at the English Education Department, Universitas Teknologi Yogyakarta (UTY), Indonesia. He was a visiting scholar at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT), New Zealand. His research interests mainly focus on TEFL, Teacher Professional Development, Sociolinguistics, and English for Specific Purposes. He can be contacted via his email: sayit.a.k@uty.ac.id.