Senior Lecturer
Social Sciences and Languages
Email : lakmini@ssl.sab.ac.lk
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.
SLELTA-Sri Lanka English Language Teachers’ Association
Teaching English as a Second Language, Applied Linguistics
On-going research on innovative methods to teach English language to non-native English speakers in Sri Lanka
Books
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, 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