Shalini Kaduwela

BA (Hons) General (Peradeniya), MA in TESL (OUSL)

Shalini Kaduwela is a motivated and a qualified educator with over 9 years of experience in teaching English Language for undergraduates in the fields of EAP (English for Academic Purposes), ESP (English for Specific Purposes) and EGP (English for General Purposes). She graduated from the University of Peradeniya and worked for 3 years at the English Language Teaching Unit of the same University. Thereafter, she joined APIIT Sri Lanka as a Lecturer in English where she has been teaching for the past 6 years.

She is very passionate about Second Language teaching and learning and developing the communication skills of the undergraduates. She completed her Masters degree in Teaching English as a Second Language at the Open University of Sri Lanka. Her research interests are academic writing, second language teaching and learning and sociolinguistic aspects of second language acquisition.