{"id":276,"date":"2024-10-20T05:29:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T05:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/english.language.teaching\/sr.ilangakoon\/?page_id=276"},"modified":"2024-10-20T06:46:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T06:46:34","slug":"positions-held","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/english.language.teaching\/sr.ilangakoon\/index.php\/positions-held\/","title":{"rendered":"Key contributions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<ul>\n<li>Head- Department of English Language Teaching (2022-to-date)<\/li>\n<li>Coordinator of the English Language Teaching Unit-Overall coordination of the academic and administrative duties related to offering English language proficiency courses for all the faculties of the University of Colombo (2012-2015)<\/li>\n<li>Self- Evaluation Report writer for the General Degree of the Faculty of Arts (2017) Received an \u2018A\u2019 Grade from the UGC appointed Review Panel<\/li>\n<li>Designed and launched the Study Stream Studies in English as a Second Language (2015)<\/li>\n<li>First Coordinator- Studies in English as a Second Language (2015 -2018)<\/li>\n<li>Chair of the first Research Symposium organized by the English language Teaching Unit \u201cReflections, Research and Innovation: New Horizons in English Language Studies (2014)<\/li>\n<li>Resource person at Workshop on \u201cTeaching English in Sri Lankan Universities\u201d- Training staff in using the University Test of English Language (UTEL) Benchmarks to the English language teaching staff of all 15 Universities. (2012)<\/li>\n<li>Member- Standing Committee on Teaching Englsih as a Second Language- University Grants Commission\u00a0 (2022 \u2013 todate)<\/li>\n<li>Member- Senate of the University of Colombo- (2022 \u2013 todate)<\/li>\n<li>Conference Coordinator- International Seminar on Language Teaching, Research and Policy: Lessons learnt and the way forward (2024)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<ul>\n<li>Member- Research committee- Faculty of Arts (2015-2018)<\/li>\n<li>Member- Board of Study of the MA in Teaching English as a Second Language- \u00a0(2014 to 2018)<\/li>\n<li>Member- Standing Committee on Teaching English as a Second Language \u2013 University Grants Commission\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (2012 to 2015)<\/li>\n<li>English Activity Coordinator of the Innovatory Development Grant for Arts Students (IDAS) of the Higher Education for the Twenty-First Century (HETC) Project-University Development Grants (UDGs) World Bank Project (2013 to 2016)<\/li>\n<li>Secretary-Sri Lanka English Language Teachers\u2019 Association (2009)<\/li>\n<li>Executive member-Child Care International- An association for the rehabilitation of Tsunami affected children<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head- Department of English Language Teaching (2022-to-date) Coordinator of the English Language Teaching Unit-Overall coordination of the academic and administrative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/english.language.teaching\/sr.ilangakoon\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/english.language.teaching\/sr.ilangakoon\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/english.language.teaching\/sr.ilangakoon\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/english.language.teaching\/sr.ilangakoon\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/english.language.teaching\/sr.ilangakoon\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/english.language.teaching\/sr.ilangakoon\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/english.language.teaching\/sr.ilangakoon\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/276\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/english.language.teaching\/sr.ilangakoon\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}