Profile : SUSL

PhD in Applied Linguistics (SL)

MPhil in English Literature (UK)

MA in Linguistics (SL)

BA (Hons) in English (SUSL)

Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education (SUSL)

Awards/Medals

The Best Student Award 2006 : Awarded The Most Venerable Balangoda Ananda Maithreya Memorial Gold Medal for the best performance and the highest aggregates of the Faculty of Social Sciences & Languages at the Convocation 2006, University of Sabaragamuwa, Sri Lanka

Awarded HETC Scholarship to pursue postgraduate degree at University of Keele UK 2011.

Awarded the research grant from NCAS in 2014.

On-going research on innovative methods to improve writing skills in less-proficient ESL learners

Books

Basnayake, B.M.L.R.K., Curriculum Development of ESL Programmes in Higher Education: A Guide to Develop a Task-based Language Curriculum. New Delhi: Taran Publication, 2022

Basnayake, B.M.L.RK., Sri Lankan War Literature: Ethnic Conflict, Trauma and Survival, Belihuloya: Anniversary Publications of Sabaragamuwa University, 2021

International Refereed Journals

Basnayake., BMLRK, & Jayathunga, Nadeera., 'Pyschological Impact of Online Education on University Students During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Case Study on ESL Undergraduates at Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka.' Asian Review of Social Sciences Vol 12 No. 2. 2023 pp. 22- 31

Basnayake, B.M.L.R.K., ‘Presenting Materials for Grammar Instruction: An Analysis of Current English Language Textbooks in Sri Lankan Universities’. Journal of ELT Research: The Academic Journal of Studies in English Language Teaching and Learning in Volume 6, Issue 1, 2021. Pp.11-30

Basnayake, B.M.L.R.K., “Literature Surpasses in History in Post-conflict Situations: Representing the ‘Unrepresentable’ through the Inter-ethnic Love Relationships in Karen Robers’ July”, Full paper published in IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science (IOSR-JHSS) Volume 26, Issue 1, Series 8 (January. 2021) 59-66