Maria Hidayati is a faculty member of the Department of English, Universitas Negeri Malang (UM). Currently, she is the General Secretary of TEFLIN, the Association for the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language in Indonesia. She earned her undergraduate degree from UM majoring in English Literature and her Magister Pendidikan from the same university. Her doctoral degree was from National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her areas of interests include teaching language skills, extensive learning programmes, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics.