Dr. Juliana Wijaya is a lecturer at UCLA and teaches Indonesian language and culture at the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures (ALC). She has done research, presented and published in the fields of second and heritage language pedagogy and acquisition, discourse analysis, pragmatics and corpus linguistics. Currently Dr. Wijaya is the president of the Council of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages (COTSEAL), and the Indonesian Studies Coordinator at the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS).