Research Interests: World Englishes, Corpus Linguistics, English Grammar, Second Language Acquisition

BA Dissertation:

An analysis of urban private sector employees’ attitude to Non-Standard Sri Lankan English.

MA Thesis:

Linguistic innovations, acceptance and norm development: Is written Sri Lankan English forming alternative norms?

Paper Presentations:

• Paper presented at the 7^th SLACLAS conference held in Colombo in June 2013 –   “Changing perceptions of Sri Lankan English pronunciation: Is the ‘standard’ being    redefined?”
• Joint paper presented at the SAARC Literary Festival on South Asian Poetry held in Bangalore in July 2015 – “ A question of faith: the conceptualization of religion in contemporary Sri Lankan poetry
•  Paper presented at International Research Conference in Humanities and Social    Sciences,  University of Sri Jayawardanapura in November 2018 – “Variant grammar features in SLEs and their implications for English Language Teaching in Sri Lanka” 
• Paper presented at International Research Conference “Corpora, Archives & Performance: Sri Lankan languages and literature” organized by the Department of English, University of Colombo in November 2019 – “Linguistic innovations, acceptance and norm development: Is written Sri Lankan English forming alternative norms?