About Dr. Chandeera Gunawardena
I am a Personal Academic Tutor at the University of Sunderland in London (UoSiL), where I support two postgraduate programmes: MSc Project Management and MSc Engineering Management.
Before joining the UoSiL, I worked as a Teaching Associate and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of York. While working at the University of York, I taught linguistic modules/seminars and study skill seminars for students in various programmes. In Sri Lanka, I have worked as a Senior Lecturer in two state universities.
I have a PhD in Linguistics from the University of York. I also hold an MA in Applied Linguistics from Sorbonne University and a BA in Linguistics from Angers University, France
Research
- I am interested in research related to language and education.
Conference Papers (Peer-Reviewed)
- Gunawardena, C. (2023). Explicit and Implicit Grammar Teaching: The Lecturer’s Dilemma. The International Conference on Innovations in Education and Technology, the University of Sunderland in London.
- Gunawardena, C., & Rathnayake, U. (2022). Acquisition of genericity in English articles: An investigation of L1-Sinhala−L2-English Speakers. The Manchester Forum in Linguistics, Manchester University, UK.
- Gunawardena, C. (2021). Implicit and explicit grammatical knowledge in L2 and L3 acquisition. The International Research Conference, University of Peradeniya Sri Lanka.
- Gunawardena, C. (2021). Unlearning of the verb movement parameter in second language acquisition task. Rajarata University International Symposium on English Language Teaching, Sri Lanka.
- Gunawardena, C., & Marsden, H. (2019). Object clitics in third language acquisition. L3 Workshop: Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing and Use, Universität Konstanz, Germany.
- Gunawardena, C. (2018). L2 speakers’ syntactic judgements in audio versus written acceptability judgement task.5th International Postgraduate Conference on Modern Foreign Languages, Linguistics & Literature, University of Central Lancashire, UK.
- Gunawardena, C. (2015). Variation in French interlanguage in Sri Lanka: A sociolinguistic study of the use of subject pronoun’ nous’ and ‘on’ in French. The International Conference on Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.
- Gunawardena, C. (2021). Measuring implicit and explicit grammatical knowledge in second language acquisition. 15th LangUE conference. University of Essex, UK.
- Gunawardena, C. (2021). Multilingual transfer: L1 morphosyntax in L3 French. Linguistics and English Language Conference, University of Edinburgh, UK.
- Gunawardena, C. (2019). Acquisition of object pronouns in English second language acquisition. The Manchester Forum in Linguistics, Manchester University, UK.
- Gunawardena, C. (2018). Object pronouns in second language acquisition. The Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Sheffield, UK.
- Gunawardena, C. (2018). Implicit and explicit knowledge in second language acquisition. Linguistics and English Language Conference, University of Edinburgh, UK.
- Gunawardena, C. (2018). Verb movement in French second language acquisition. Sheffield Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics, University of Sheffield, UK.
- Gunawardena. C. (2018). Object clitics in French second language acquisition. Conference of Postgraduate Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE), University College London, UK.
- Gunawardena. C. (2017). Adverb placement in French second language acquisition. The Postgraduate and Academic Researchers in York (PARLAY) Conference, University of York, UK.
- Gunawardena, C. (2015). Variation in French interlanguage in Sri Lanka: A sociolinguistic study of ‘ne’ omission. The International Conference on Humanities, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka.
- Gunawardena, C. (2014). Error Analysis of Pronunciation of French by Sinhala Speaking Learners. World Academic conference on Humanities and Social Sciences Conferences, Paris.
Journal Publications:
- Gunawardena, C. (in press). Explicit and Implicit Grammar Teaching: The Lecturer’s Dilemma.
- Innovations in Education and Technology Gunawardena, C. (2023). First Language Transfer in the Acquisition of English Object Pronouns by Sinhala-Speaking ESL Learners. Journal of the Humanities (2022) 43:2, 58-75. Gunawardena, C. (2022). Acquisition of L3 French object clitics by L1-Sinhala-L2-English speakers. Language Related Research, 13(5), 223-252.
- Gunawardena, C.P. (2022). Measuring implicit and explicit grammatical knowledge in second language acquisition. Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2(2), 17-22.
- Gunawardena, C.P. (2022). Acquisition of the verb movement parameter in French by adult English speakers. Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2(1), 11-20.
- Gunawardena, C.P. (2022). Use/non-use of ne in Spoken French by L2 and L3 French Speakers. University Journal Humanities, University of Rajarata, 7(11), 11-17
Areas of expertise
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Further information
Professional recognition:
- FHEA (Advance Higher Education - Fellow)