Ms. Poornima Thuduwage is lecturer (probationary) in French and English attached to the Center for Communication Skills Development. She gradauted from the University of Kelaniya with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons). She is currently reading for her MPhil in French at University of Kelaniya and her MA in Teaching English as a Second Language at the Post Graduate Institute of English of Open University of Sri Lanka. Prior to joining SLTC Research University, she also worked as an assistant lecturer at University of Kelaniya, a visiting lecturer at Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka. Her research interests include language teaching / learning, translanguaging and cultural translation.