Priyanvada Abeywickrama

Priyanvada Abeywickrama is a Professor and TESOL Program Coordinator at San Francisco State University. She also coordinates the CMS program and holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from UCLA.

Education includes an M.A. in Applied Linguistics/TESL from Iowa State University and a PhD from UCLA. She began her career as an ESL instructor at the University of Colombo, focusing on curriculum development and materials design.

Her research integrates language assessment with second language literacy, oral skills, and discourse analysis (codeswitching). She co-authored a prominent textbook on language assessment and frequently presents at conferences like TESOL and LTRC.

Her work emphasizes practical classroom applications and teacher training, including roles in the U.S. State Department’s Uzbek Teacher Training Program.