Sutaryo is a senior lecturer and has been teaching English for more than 25 years at the English Language Education Study Program of the Teacher Training and Education Faculty in Universitas Khairun (Ternate, Maluku Utara). He graduated from Bachelor of English Language Education of IKIP Negeri Manado (Sulawesi Utara) in 1991. He then continued his study to pursue master program in ‘Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)’ in the University of South Australia under Australian Development Scholarship (ADS) and obtained M.Ed TESOL degree in 2000 and M.Ed degree in 2001. He studied the doctoral program in TESOL in Flinders University (Australia) 2011 through DIKTI scholarship and obtained his Doctor of Education degree in 2016.