Dr. Udara de Silva

Educational Qualifications

Professional Experience

Senior Lecturer Gr I, Department of Modern Languages, University of Kelaniya
Japanese Language Certificate, Soka University, Japan 2002.
Japanese Language Proficiency, Level 1 (2004, 2010).
Teacher Training, Japan Foundation, 2010.
President, Japanese Language Teachers’ Association of Sri Lanka. (2008/ 2009)

Scholarships and Awards

2024

Coordination Excellence in Humanities Award, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.

2023

Erasmus+ “International Credit Mobility” Grant, Staff Training Mobility, University of Rouen Normandy, France.

2010 & 2013

Monbukagakusho (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: MEXT) Scholarship for Postgraduate Studies (Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy), Graduate School of Language and Society, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan.

2012

Tsukada Memorial Award for the ‘Best Master’s Thesis by a Foreign Student’, Graduate School of Language and Society, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan.