Agra Rajapakse Lekamlage
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Ross-Blakley Hall 101BA PO Box 871401 TEMPE, AZ 85287-1401
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Mail code: 1401Campus: Tempe
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Agra Rajapakse is originally from Sri Lanka and has a PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Arizona State University. She is a Faculty Associate attached to the Writing Programs at the Department of English, Arizona State University. She completed both her BA (English) and MA (English Studies) degrees at University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Her research interests are in sociolinguistics, World Englishes, the use of English as an International Language, language ideology, multilingualism and writing and rhetoric. She 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.
Agra has over ten years of experience teaching English Language and Literature, English as a Second Language (ESL) and Business English at the secondary and tertiary level in Sri Lanka. At ASU, she teaches Writing Composition - ENG 101 and 102.
A Descriptive Analysis of the Language of the Burghers of Sri Lanka in “English for education, empowerment and equality”, eds. Dushyanthi Mendis, Dinali Fernando, 2008.
- A descriptive analysis of the language of the Burghers at the 4th Annual Conference of the Sri Lanka English Teachers’ Association (SLELTA), 2006.
- Dialects of Sri Lankan English: the impact of social change on language use at the International Research Conference (IConArts 2016) of the Faculty of Arts, University of Colombo 2016.
- An exploration of attitudes towards the use and users of English in Sri Lanka through a study of code-switching in Sinhalese teledramas at the 25th Annual Graduate Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, and TESOL Symposium at Arizona State University in February 2019.
- The Scale of Phonetic Variation as a research tool for describing phonetic variation in Sri Lankan English (SLE) at the 24th International Association of World Englishes Conference at the University of Limerick, Ireland in June 2019.
Courses
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2024 Fall
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| ENG 302 | Business Writing |
| ENG 302 | Business Writing |
2024 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 302 | Business Writing |
| ENG 302 | Business Writing |
| ENG 302 | Business Writing |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2023 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2022 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2020 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2020 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2020 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2019 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |