Wisnu Agung Pradana is an Indonesian language teacher and a course materials developer at Lembaga Bahasa Universitas Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in English Education from Universitas Sanata Dharma in 2013. Prior to his current career, he worked as an Indonesian Language Assistant at the Department of Education of Western Australia. His duties in current workplace include providing assistance to deliver and develop the language program. He and his team venture to establish intercultural competence curriculum for ISOL (Indonesian for Speakers of Other Languages), which he strongly believes it will help minimize cultural frictions evoked by foreign students who possess limited knowledge on Indonesian culture.

He is pursuing a Master’s degree in Education with specialization in World Language Education at University of Georgia. His proposed study is to address the primary challenge of teaching ISOL in Indonesia since there is no official standardized ISOL curriculum established yet. Upon completion of the Master’s degree program, he intends to return to his institution to develop the apt cross-curriculum for the Lembaga and later as an advocate to propose an official ISOL curriculum to the Indonesian Ministry of Education.