Dr Maskanah Mohammad Lotfie had obtained her BEd (Hons) TESOL (Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages) degree from Moray House College of Education in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1990, and then pursued MSc and Ph.D (TESL) at University Putra Malaysia, and was conferred the degrees in 2001 and 2007, respectively. Maskanah is an Associate Prof