Dr. Hanaa Samaha is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of English Language at the Faculty of Language and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya. She received her PhD Degree in Syntax, Systemic Functional Linguistics in 2022 from Universiti Malaya. Her research focused on syntax, with her primary interest in functional syntax and Systemic Functional Linguistics, specifically the Cardiff Grammar. Her current research includes Appraisal Theory, discourse analysis, multimodality, and language learning and teaching theories and their implication in second language learning.