Riski Lestiono

Riski Lestiono is a lecturer in EnglishLanguage Education Department, Faculty ofTeacher Training and Education, Universityof Muhammadiyah Malang. He is teachingEnglish especially linguistics courses. He earnedhis specialization in linguistics from RadboudUniversity Nijmegen, The Netherlands, withmajor research interest in applied linguistics intranslation studies, sociolinguistics, pragmatics,and language change. The writer has published some books: BilingualNusantara Folklores, Guideline for Intercultural Instruction, andCulture and Tourism Potential of Malang, as well as edited a numberof books: Shining English, Little Sunshine Bilingual Book, and a longlistof ESP books. He has been doing researches on arriving at Englishpronunciation by means of hijaiyah sounds as the bridge these past threeyears, authoring articles as the outputs.