Aishowarza Manik

Aishowarza Manik graduated in Linguistics from the University of Dhaka (DU), Bangladesh. The focal area of her MA research at DU was ‘Syntactic acquisition process of Bengali children’She has also successfully completed a professional MA in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (MTCSOL) from Guizhou University, China with a full scholarship awarded by the Chinese government. Her second MA research focused on the role of cognitive strategy in developing Chinese reading skills for Bengali beginner-learners of Chinese. During her MA studies, she also worked as a Chinese language instructor at a vocational university in China. Her primary research interest is in the area of Applied Linguistics, with a specific focus on the use of technology in second language acquisition. Her PhD research is concerned with the Chinese language learning context in Bangladesh. She is using an Action Research framework in her research which aims to promote learner autonomy by using mobile technology among Chinese language learners in Bangladesh. Aishowarza is funded by the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies (SALIS), Dublin City University.