Department:                          Department of Modern Languages

University Location:             (Room Number) K16 

University Address:              Department of Modern Languages,
                                                   University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka

Telephone:                              (Office) +94-11-2-914494 

E mail:                                      chandeera@kln.ac.lk

Personal website:                 chandeeragun.wixsite.com/linguistics

• York Teaching and Learning Awards | University of York
• HEA accredited Level-7 programme (Master’s Level) in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
• Habilitation des examinateurs et des correcteurs DELF (A1-B2), CIEP

• Humanities Research Centre Postdoctoral Fellowship | University of York
• Associate Fellowship | Advanced Higher Education Academy

• Lecturer |University of Kelaniya 2021
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow |University of York, UK 2020 - 2021
• Research Assistant |University of York, UK Jan - Aug 2020
• Graduate Teaching Assistant |University of York, UK 2017 - 2019
• Tutor (Part-time) in French |Cactus Language Centre, Leeds 2016 - 2017
• Teacher (Part-time) | Alliance Française de Kotte 2012 - 2014
• Lecturer (Probationary), Department of Modern Languages, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya 2010
• Visiting lecturer, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka 2007 - 2008

• Humanities Research Centre Postdoctoral Fellowship| University of York, UK 2020-2021
• Research and Conference Grants| University of York, UK 2018-2019
• Research and Conference Grants| University of Konstanz, Germany June 2019
• PG research Grants| University Grants Commission, Sri Lanka 2016-2019

• Linguistic Association of Great Britain
• Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, United Kingdom

• Abstract Reviewer| Postgraduate Academic Researchers in Linguistics at York Conference 2021
• Abstract Reviewer | 14th International Research Conference, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University
• Session Chair |2016 Conference on Tense, Aspect and Modality in L2, University of York

• Member of the advisory committee for revising the G.C.E. (Ordinary Level) French Language syllabus, Sri Lanka 2014 - 2015
• Member of the advisory committee for revising the G.C.E. (Advanced Level) French Language, Sri Lanka 2014 - 2015

• Gunawardena, C. (2021).Unlearning of the verb movement parameter in second language acquisition task [Paper presentation]. Rajarata University International Symposium on English Language Teaching, Sri Lanka
• Gunawardena, C. (2021). Measuring implicit and explicit grammatical knowledge in second language acquisition [Paper presentation].15th LangUE conference. University of Essex, UK
• Gunawardena, C. (2021). Multilingual transfer: L1 morphosyntax in L3 French. [Paper presentation]. Linguistics and English Language Conference, University of Edinburgh, UK.
• Gunawardena, C., & Marsden, H. (2019). Object clitics in third language acquisition [Paper presentation]. L3workshop: Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing and Use,Universität Konstanz, Germany.
• Gunawardena, C. (2019). Acquisition of object pronouns in English second language acquisition [Paper presentation].The Manchester Forum in Linguistics,Manchester  

• Gunawardena, C. (2018). Object pronouns in second language acquisition [Paper presentation]. The Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Sheffield, UK.
• Gunawardena, C. (2018). L2 speakers’ syntactic judgements in audio versus written acceptability judgement task [Paper presentation].5th International Postgraduate Conference onModern Foreign Languages, Linguistics & Literature, University of CentralLancashire, UK.
• Gunawardena, C. (2018). Implicit and explicit knowledge in second language acquisition [Paper presentation]. Linguistics and English Language Conference,University of Edinburgh, UK.
• Gunawardena, C. (2018). Verb movement in French second language acquisition. [Paper presentation].Sheffield Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics, University of Sheffield,UK.
• Gunawardena, C. (2018). ObjectcliticsinFrenchsecondlanguageacquisition[Paper presentation]. Conference of Postgraduate Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe(ConSOLE), University College London, UK.
• Gunawardena, C. (2017). Adverb placement in French second language acquisition [Paper presentation]. 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 the use of subject pronoun’ nous’ and ‘on’ in French [Paper presentation]. TheInternational Conference on Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.
• Gunawardena, C. (2015). Variation in French interlanguage in Sri Lanka: A sociolinguistic study of ‘ne’ omission [Paper presentation]. The International Conference on Humanities,University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka.
• Gunawardena, C. (2015). Sinhala and French word phonology: A Comparative Study [Paper presentation]. The International Research Conference, University of Peradeniya Sri Lanka.
• Gunawardena, C. (2014). Error Analysis of Pronunciation of French by Sinhala Speaking Learners [Paper presentation]World Academic Conference on Humanities and Social SciencesConferences, Paris.
• Gunawardena, C. (2012). Pronunciation Problems in French: A Case Study of First-Year Students at University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka [Paper presentation].The International PostgraduateResearch Conference, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.

• 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). Acquisition of the Verb Movement Parameter in French by Adult English Speakers. Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2(1), 77-85
• Gunawardena, C. P. (2022). Measuring implicit and explicit grammatical knowledge in second language acquisition. Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2(2), 17-22
• Gunawardena, C. (2022). Use/non-use of ne in Spoken French by L2 and L3 French Speakers. Rajarata University Journal 2(2), 11-17
• Gunawardena, C. (in press). First Language Transfer in the Acquisition of English Object Pronouns by Sinhala-Speaking ESL Learners. The Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities, University of Peradeniya
• Gunawardena, C. (in press). Object Pronominalization in Third Language Acquisition. Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Review

         R, SPSS, R, PsychoPy

I work primarily in second language (L2) and third language (L3) acquisition, focussing on the L2/L3 acquisition of phenomena at the syntax–semantics interface, with a special interest in the L3 acquisition of French and other European languages.