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Dr. Agra Rajapakse

PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics (Arizona State University), MA in English Studies (University of Colombo), BA English honors (University of Colombo)

Senior Lecturer

Post Graduate Institute of English
  • Postgraduate Institute of English, Open University of Sri Lanka
  • rlraj@ou.ac.lk

Dr. Agra Rajapakse is a Senior Lecturer at the Postgraduate Institute of English (PGIE), The Open University of Sri Lanka. She has a PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Arizona State University (ASU), USA. She completed her BA (English) and MA (English Studies) degrees at University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Agra has over fifteen years of experience teaching content related to English Language and Literature at the secondary and tertiary level in Sri Lanka and the USA. She teaches courses such as sociolinguistics, research methodology, research communication and academic writing
at the PGIE. She also has experience teaching First Year Composition and Business English at ASU. In addition to teaching, Agra has also developed course material for Research Methodology and functions as Course Chair of the courses Sociolinguistics, Research Methodology and Advanced Research Communication on the MA in Teaching English as a Second Language (MA in TESL) program.

Sociolinguistics, World Englishes, Use of English as an International Language, Language Ideology, Multilingualism, Language Policy Planning, Bilingual Education, Writing and Rhetoric. Dr Agra Rajapakse is primarily interested in studying the ways in which practices and ideologies related to the use of English are gradually changing in Sri Lanka and what sociolinguistic implications such changes would have for the profile of her country in the map of World Englishes as well as pedagogical practices in English Language Teaching (ELT).

Programme Coordinator – MA in Teaching English as a Second Language (MA in TESL), Higher Degrees by Research (HDR) program.

  1. Warriner, D.S., Griego, A. & Rajapakse, A. (2024). Multilingual literacies in the Routledge Handbook of Multilingualism, 2nd edition.
  2. Rajapakse, A. (2023), The impact of linguistic racism and coloniality on Sri Lankan English studies: the case of Burgher English, International Multilingual Research Journal (IMRJ), 1-12.
  3. Rajapakse, A. (2023), The impact of monolingual language policies on the multilingual language ecology of Sri Lanka, International Journal of Applied Linguistics (IJAL), 34 (2), 642-655.
  4. Rajapakse, A. (2008). A Descriptive Analysis of the Language of the Burghers of Sri Lanka, English for education, empowerment and equality, Mendis, D. & Fernando, D. (Eds.)

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