E-mail: thilinaw@kln.ac.lk (University)
           slthilina123@yahoo.com (Other)

1. Teaching Buddhism through English: The value of content-based instruction, presented at the 1st National Conference, Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka, August 24-25, 2012

2. English through Jataka stories: A Task-based language teaching programme using content from translated Jataka stories, presented at 7th International Conference organized by Sri Lanka English Language Teachers’ Association (SLELTA), September 07-09, 2012

3. “Super Heroes” / “Action Figures” and American Global Hegemony: A Critical Analysis of New Trends in Hollywood Cinema presented at the First International Research Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, November 08-09, 2012

4. Holmes, Bond and Orientalism: Ideological implications of detective narratives, presented at 06th Annual Research Conference organized by Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, March 28-30 2013

5. “What is to be a ‘Mother’?” – An exposition of “non-biological mothers” in literary texts, Joint presentation, Second International Research Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, December 04-05, 2013

6. Towards a corpus-based identification of Sri Lankan learner English: A pilot study based on 1st year undergraduate writings of the University of Kelaniya, Joint presentation, December 12, 2013

7. “Teaching L2 through content?” An experimental study of effectiveness of a content-based language teaching approach presented at the 35th Annual and 1st International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India organized by the Central Institute of Indian Langauges, Mysore and The Linguistic Society of India, Pune, November 27-29, 2013

8. “Writing-reading relationships: Effectiveness of writing activities as pre-reading tasks to enhance L2 inferential reading comprehension”, presented at The 10th Malaysia International Conference on English Language Teaching (MICELT 2014) held from 13-15 September, 2014 at The Palace of the Golden Horses, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The full paper was published in the Journal, Advances in Language and Literary Studies, Volume 5, Issue 5 Pages 213-221, 2014/10/1

9. “’I can’t read this! It’s so difficult!’ - The impact of difficulty of texts and ESL reading comprehension”, presented virtually at the 14th TESOL Asia / Asian EFL Journal International Conference. The conference was held at Site Skills Training Facility, Clark, Pampanga, Philippines between August 21 – 23, 2015. 10. “„To like reading or not to like reading‟: An exploration of university reading culture and students‟ attitudes towards reading”, presented virtually at The Applied Linguistics Conference 2017 (ALANZ /ALAA / ALTAANZ), Auckland, New Zealand. The conference was held at Auckland University of Technology from 27th – 29th November 2017 11. “Online reading to the rescue: The use of online teaching platforms to develop the reading skills of ESL learners, presented at the 17th Asia TEFL International Conference and the 6th FLLT (Foreign Language Learning and Teaching) International Conference from 27th June 2019 – 29th June 2019

1. "Writing-reading relationships: Effectiveness of writing activities as pre-reading tasks to enhance L2 inferential reading comprehension”. The full paper was published in the Journal, Advances in Language and Literary Studies, Volume 5, Issue 5 Pages 213-221, 2014/10/1

Literacy studies

Psycholinguistics

Literature and Critical theory

Research in teaching English as a Second Language – focus on reading and writing