Desi Herayana is a Junior Lecturer in the English Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Mataram. She earned her Master’s Degree in Applied Linguistics at the University of Adelaide, South Australia which was funded by the Indonesian Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP) in 2016 – 2018. She is interested in education in rural areas, linguistics, language assessment, language teaching, and translation.