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 Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature. She teaches Morphology, History of the English Language and Research Methodology.
Maskanah is currently carrying out research on the acquisition of English derivational and inflectional structures, academic plagiarism among students at the tertiary level and historical roots of Englishes.

• Humanities ~ Humanities ~ Linguistics and Literature ~ Language Acquisition (Including First Language Acquisition, SLA, Bilingualism, Foreign Language Learning) - Language Acquisition
• Humanities ~ Humanities ~ Linguistics and Literature ~ Applied Linguistics - Teaching English as a Second Language

• 2006 - 2024: Member of Profesional Body / Association: (Member), Malaysian English Language Teacher Association (MELTA)
• 2012 - 2024: Member of Profesional Body / Association: (Member), Asia TEFL

Completed

2019 - 2022	Constructing a new developmentally moderated model of English instruction with focus on form for Malaysian public preschools.
2016 - 2019	Language Policy and Practices in Indonesian Higher Education Institutions
2015 - 2018	An Analysis of Variation Theory Efficacy for Mobile Phone Application towards Enhancing Students? Knowledge of Grammar
2014 - 2016	The Relationship between Grammatical Knowledge Types and the Usage of Morphological Past Time Inflections
2010 - 2012	An Assessment of the Arabic Language Programme for Human Sciences Students at IIUM
2009 - 2011	A Corpus-based Study on the Temporal Systems of Malay and English
2007 - 2008	A Comparative Study of the Malay and the English Language Past Time Form Systems

On-Going

02 Dec, 2016

Award for 25 Years of Service - International Islamic University Malaysia

University

Article

2023	English presentation self-efficacy development of Indonesian ESP students: the effects of individual versus group presentation tasks. International Journal of Language Education, 7 (3) pp. 361-376
2022	Challenges in teaching of English to pre-schoolers: a case study in Malaysian schools. Al-Risalah Journal, 6 (1) pp. 38-61
2021	The representation of Syrian refugees in Canadian online news media: a focus on the Topos of burdening. Canadian Journal of Communication, 46 (4) pp. 875-903
2020	Effects of dual-language programme (DLP) on the usage of English adjectives at primary school level in Malaysia. Social and Management Research Journal, 17 (2) pp. 263-288
2020	The use of automated writing evaluation (AWE) in developing language proficiency: a study from the learners’ perspective. Malaysian Journal of ELT Research (MaJER), 17 (2) pp. 87-102
2020	Towards a new framework of English language learning in Malaysian preschools. Southeast Asia Early Childhood Journal, 9 (2) pp. 144-154
2018	Language policy and practices in Indonesian higher education institutions. Intellectual Discourse, 26 (2) pp. 683-704
2017	–Ed Allomorphs and linguistic knowledge of Malay speakers of English: a descriptive and correlational study. Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 7 (2) pp. 445-454
2017	Past-time marker –ed in the speech and written work of Indonesian English majors. Journal of English as International Language, 12 (2) pp. 56-72
2017	The use of adverbials in the verbal production of Malay ESL learners: a processability approach. LSP International, 4 (1) pp. 1-22
2016	English in Myanmar: usage of English adjective phrases by Burmese and Rohingya bloggers. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 10 (2) pp. 68-88
2016	Guest Editor's Column. Asiatic, 10 (2) pp. 5-6
2016	Validation study of the Malay version of the Myasthenia Gravis Quality of Life (MGQOL)15 and Myasthenia Gravis Activities of Daily Living (MGADL) questionnaires. Neurology Asia, 21 (1) pp. 33-39
2015	Linguistic knowledge types and past-time inflectional output of Malay users of English. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature , 9 (2) pp. 139-157
2013	Comparing higher education systems in selected Asia Pacific countries: implications for Malaysia. Bulletin of Higher Education Research, (21) pp. 1-4
2013	Students' perspective on incorporating Arabic words in the teaching of English to Muslim learners. Arab World English Journal, 4 (1) pp. 108-123
2013	Students’ perception of an Arabic language course in humanities degree programmes at the International Islamic University Malaysia. World Applied Sciences Journal , 21 () pp. 36-43
2007	Noticing and grammatical accuracy in ESL learners’ writing. Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching, 3 (2) pp. 202-215
2007	Shyness and groupism as prevalent cultural and attitudinal traits in learning English as a second language. Journal of Educational Research, 27 (2) pp. 63-72

Conference or Workshop Item

2021	Exploring research designs in language studies. In: Virtual Visiting Professor Series,
2020	The present simple form in the written work of Bangladeshi EFL learners. In: International Conference on Language and Literature 2020 (ICLL 2020),
2018	Effects of Dual-Language Programme (DLP) on the usage of English adjectives by primary school students. In: International Conference on Language, Culture and Society 2018 (2018),
2018	Present tense form usage by Arab and Malay users of English. In: International Conference on Language, Culture and Society (ICLCS18) 2018,
2018	Using automated writing evaluation in developing ESL learners’ writing proficiency. In: International Conference on Language, Culture and Society (ICLCS18) 2018,
2016	Penelitian ilmu bahasa:Research methodology for language related topics: Why, what and how?. In: Penelitian Hibah dan Penelitian Bahasa,
2016	The –ed allomorphs of Malay speakers of English and linguistic knowledge types. In: Third International Conference on Language, Literature & Society 2016,
2015	English adjective phrase variations of bloggers from two Myanmar ethnic groups. In: International Conference on Languages (ICL 2015),
2015	The use of English derivational forms by Malaysian ESL learners. In: International Conference on Languages (ICL 2015),
2014	The relationship between linguistic knowledge types and inflectional output. In: Linguistic and Language Conference (LI LA '14),
2014	The use of adverbials in the verbal usage of Malay ESL learners at the tertiary level. In: International Language Conference (ILC) 2014,
2013	Tertiary students' perspective on factors that cause academic plagiarism. In: International Language for Communication Conference (ILCC 2013): Engaging Global Community: Breaking the Barries to Effective Communication,
2012	An assessment of the Arabic language programme for Human Sciences students at International Islamic University Malaysia. In: Languages of the Wider World: Sustaining a Global Society,
2012	Human sciences students’ perception of an Arabic course and their retention of the language. In: IIUM Research, Invention and Innovation Exhibition, IRIIE 2012,
2012	To copy or not to copy: an evaluation of English undergraduate majors’ awareness of plagiarism. In: IIUM Research, Invention and Innovation Exhibition, IRIIE 2012,
2011	An evaluation of Arabic for Human Sciences students programme . In: 2nd International Language Conference (ILC) 2011,
2011	Cross-linguistic influence in the written present tense forms of Malay and English . In: 20th MELTA International Conference,
2011	Policy development in Malaysian Higher Education: workshop on comparative study of Higher Education System in Asia. In: Workshop on Comparative Study of Selected Higher Education System in Asia,
2010	A cross-linguistic investigation of Malay and English temporal systems. In: The Malaysian International Conference on Academic Strategies in English Language Teaching (My_CASELT 2010),
2010	Incorporating Arabic words in the teaching of English to Muslim learners: students' perspectives. In: 5th International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences ,
2008	The effects of noticing training on Malay ESL learners’ use of past time forms in writing. In: Exhibition of Invention, Research & Innovation 2008 - PRPi08,

Book

2019	Research designs for language studies. University of Malaya Press, ISBN: 978-967-488-081-1
2017	The use of English derivational forms by Malaysian ESL learners: a linguistics analysis. IIUM Press, International Islamic University Malaysia, ISBN: 978-967-418-558-9
2014	Comparing selected higher education systems in Asia. Institut Terjemahan dan Buku Negara and IPPTN, ISBN: 9789674305277
2010	Kelingkang. Institut Terjemahan Negara Malaysia, ISBN: 9789830685151
2010	Kelingkang. Institut Terjemahan Negara Malaysia, ISBN: 9789830685151

Book Section

2019	Introduction. In: University of Malaya Press, ISBN: 978-967-488-081-1, pp. 1-8
2019	Quasi-experiments. In: University of Malaya Press, ISBN: 978-967-488-081-1, pp. 161-176
2017	The relationship between linguistic knowledge types and inflectional output. In: Silverfish Books, ISBN: 978-983-3221-64-6, pp. 228-259
2011	A Malay-English cross-linguistic study of present time forms. In: IIUM Press, ISBN: 9789674181468, pp. 53-60

Monograph

2018	AN ANALYSIS OF VARIATION THEORY EFFICACY FOR MOBILE PHONE APPLICATION TOWARDS ENHANCING STUDENTS’ KNOWLEDGE OF GRAMMAR.. In: ,
2012	An assessment of the arabic language programme for human sciences students at IIUM . In: s.n,