Department:                       Department of Modern Languages

University Location:         (Room Number) K16 402

University Address:           Department of Modern Languages,

                                                University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya,Sri Lanka.

Telephone:                            (Office) +94-11-2-903721 / (Extension) 722

E-mail:                                    sugandhikac@kln.ac.lk / madhusugandhi@yahoo.com 

• Delivered the live commentary of the Grand Randoli Perahera in German in 2023 and in 2022.
  
• Subject coordinator of the German B.A External Degree Program at the Centre for Distance and Continuation Education, university of Kelaniya. (CDCE) in 2023
  
• Member of the writing panel for the preparation of modules for German grade 10 relevant to new curriculum reforms at the National Insitute of Education (NIE) Maharagama in 2021
• 8th April 2021 - 18th May 2021 - Resource person of the syllabus revision panel of the German external Degree syllabus at the Centre for Distance and
  Continuation Education, university of Kelaniya. (CDCE) in 2021
  
• Conducted online Learning sessions , seminar sessions and prepared study materials for the German B.A external Degree Program at the Centre dor Distnace and continuation Education (CDCE) of University of Kelaniya from 2020 2023
  
• Resource person of the syllabus revision panel of the B.A German General and Honours Degree Programs at the Department of Modern Languages, University of Kelaniya.
  
• Member of the writing panel of the German Grade 13 Teacher’s Guide for the newly revised curriculum to be implemented from 2018 at the National Institute of Education. (NIE) Maharagama
  
• Conducted lecture sessions for German A/L Teachers at the teacher training program conducted by the National Institute of Education (NIE), Maharagama in 2017
  
• Resource person of the teaching material preparation panel of the G.C.E German Advanced Level Curriculum at the National Institute of Education, (NIE), Maharagama in 2016
  

• Cooray, M. (2022). Introducing mythical creatures in Grimm’s fairy tales to Sri Lankan German language learners : A case study, Nagananda International Journal of Humanities and social sciences of the Nagananda International Institute for Buddhist Studies, vol.2 , p. 68-83
  
• Cooray, M. (2017/2018). Portrayal of women as a hidden weapon in world war one graphic art propaganda, Journal of the Faculty of Humanities University of Kelaniya, vol. 25 , p .116 -136
  
• Cooray, M. (2017) Sterntaler - Star Money is historic, Prabha Academic Journal of the Faculty of Humanities University of Kelaniya , 5th Issue vol. 2, p.153 - 175
  
• Cooray, M. (2013/2014). Infanticide as Fiction: Goethe’s Faust as a Model, Prabha Academic Journal of the Faculty of Humanities University of Kelaniya , vol. 3, p 160 -167
  
• Cooray, M. The historical snow white: The origin of the snow white fairy tale of Children's and Household stories of Brother Grimm, Full Paper Publications of the 7th annual  international research Conference of the University of the Visual and Performing arts, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2017
  
• Cooray, M. The divinatory and ritual purposes of the ancient runic alphabet, Full paper publications of the Junior academic research symposium of the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018, p. 163 -172
  

• Cooray, M. ‘The use of Drama,as a performance enhancer in teaching German as a Foreign Language: a case study based on the student’s performance of the drama “Faust” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’ First International conference on Social Sciences and Languages (ICSSL 2023), Faculty of Social Sciences and Languages, University of
  Sabaragamuwa, Sri Lanka, 2023
  
• Cooray, M. Teachers’ Perspective about Delivering Lectures for a Large Group of Foreign Language Learners through Online, International Symposium of Rajarata University, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, 2022, p.58
  
• Cooray, M. An analysis on common errors made by German Language learners working in the travel and tourism sector , 20th International postgraduate Research Conference of the Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka , 2019, p.129
  
• Cooray, M. The use of commercial videos as Authentic materials in improving the practice of Intercultural Skills of Foreign Language learners, 19th International Postgraduate Research Conference of the Faculty of Graduate studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018, p.89
  
• Cooray, M. The divinatory and ritual purpose of the ancient Runic alphabet of Germanic tribes , Junior academic Research Symposium of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018 . p.15
  
• Cooray, M. The impact of authentic materials in enhancing the cross cultural skills of German tourism learners , 4th International Conference on Social sciences of the Faculty of Social sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018, p.83
  
• Cooray, M. Teaching strategies to overcome Internal differentiation (Binnendifferenzierung) in Teaching German as a Foreign Language, 3rd International Conference on Linguistics , University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2017, p.51
• Cooray, M. The historical snow white: The origin of the snow white fairy tale of Children's and Household stories of Brother Grimm, 7th annual International Research Conference of the University of Visual and Performing arts, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2017, p.33
  
• Cooray, M. The Origin of the “Dance of the May” (Tanz in den Mai) and it’s heathen
  Beliefs, International Conference on Foreign Language teaching and learning of  the Department of Modern Languages, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016, P.115 - 117
  
• Cooray, M. The Creation of Fairy tale witch - The transformation of folk witch in to fairy tale witch in Children’s and Household Tales of Brother Grimm, International Conference on Foreign Language teaching and learning of the Department of Modern Languages, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016, P. 208 - 210
  
• Cooray, M. Difficulties encountered by students in reading German Literature, 2nd International Conference on Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016, p .34
  
• Cooray, M. Problems encountered by teachers in using communicative language teaching method in teaching German as a Foreign Language, 2nd International Conference on Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016, p.32
  
• Cooray, M. The Use of Visual Materials to teach contents of medieval German Sagas (Sagen) and Heroic Epics (Helden Epik), International Postgraduate Research Conference of the Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016, p.122
  

• Cooray, M. ශුද්ධ වූ සැඳෑවේ සන්තාපය (Translation of the German short story “Einsam am heligen Abend” by Herman Bang) , A collection of Foreign Literature Translations of the Department of Modern Languages, University of Kelaniya , Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2023 (In Print)
  
• Cooray, M. අඳුරු රජවරුන් තිදෙනා (Translation of the German short story “ Die drei dunkle Könige by Wolfgang Bochert) A collection of Foreign Literature Translations of the Department of Modern Languages , University of Kelaniya , Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2020 , p. 1 - 7
  
• Cooray, M. යකඩ කුරුසය (Translation of the German short story “Das eiserne Kreuz” by Heiner Müller), A collection of Foreign Literature Translations of  the Department of Modern Languages, University of Kelaniya , Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018 , p. 199 - 203

•  Cooray, M ටි්‍රස්ටන් සහ ඉසොල්ඩ : The most enchanting medieval romance based on Arthurian legend (Sinhala translation of the German epic Tristan und Isolde by Gottfried Straßburg), Author Publication , Kelaniya , Sri Lanka, 2022, p. 1 - 87
  
• Cooray, M. අප්‍රකට ජර්මානු ජන කතා: A collection of untold folktales from Germany (Sinhala translation of selected regional folktales from Germany), Kadulla Publication, Kadawatha , Sri Lanka , 2023 , p. 1 - 76 (In Print)
  
• Cooray, M. අඳුරු සුරංගනා කතා : Anti fairy tales of Brother Grimm, (Sinhala translation of selected German anti fairy tales from the Children’s and Household Stories of Brother Grimm), Kadulla Publication, Kadawatha , Sri Lanka , 2023 , p. 1 - 100 (In Print)
• Cooray, M. German for Tour Guiding: A Course book for German language learners with B1 - B2 language level, Author Publication , Kelaniya , Sri Lanka, 2022, p.1 - 132
• Cooray, M. An introduction to German Poetry : A study material for poetry analysis for beginners , Author Publication , Kelaniya, Sri Lanka , 2022 ,p. 1 -85

• German folklore literature
  
• Social history of Germany and German
• speaking countries
  
• Medieval German literature
  
• German for tourism
  
• Foreign language teaching and cultural competency

• The use of children’s literature in the foreign language class room.
  
•  True origins of Grimm’s Dark Fairy tales: the historical roots of German Fairy tales