Aishath Suad is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Education, Maldives National University (MNU). She has been serving at MNU since 2012, contributing to teaching, research, and academic development in the field of English language education and linguistics.
She holds a Master of Arts in English Language and Linguistics from the Universiti Brunei Darussalam and a Bachelor of Teaching English as a Foreign Language from the Maldives National University.

Master of Arts in English Language and Linguistics, Universiti of Brunei Darussalam, Brunei, 2015

World Englishes, Sociolinguistics, Bilingual Education.

• Methods and Pilot Data for the Empirical Description of Forms and Usage of English in the Maldives
(German Research Foundation (DFG) DFG BE 5812/7-1, SPR/2024/03, 01 June 2025 – 31 May 2026, grant for the initiation of an international collaboration with the Maldives National University by Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Germany).

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Introduction to Linguistics, Learning a Second Language, Bilingual Learner.

Bernaisch, T., Suad, A., & Saeed, A. (2024). Particle verbs versus simplex verbs in Maldivian English. World Englishes. https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12677

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47th Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 47), “A Confluence of Corpus Research in the Age of AI”, 26–30 May 2026, University of Koblenz, Koblenz, Germany. Conference presentation on “AI-Enhanced and Smartphone-Based Compilation of Spontaneous Speech: The Creation of the Corpus of Spoken Maldivian English (CoSpoMalE)” (with Tobias Bernaisch, Julia Degenhardt, Barbara Güldenring and Eliane Lorenz).

26th Conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE 2025) “World Englishes through Space and Time”, 25-27 July 2025, Justus Liebig University, Giessen. Conference presentation on “Codeswitching Practices in the Maldives”.

25th Conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE 2023), “World Englishes in a Multilingual World”, 15–17 June 2023, Stony Brook University, New York, USA. Talk on “Particle verbs in Maldivian English: acceptability ratings and short-term diachronic corpus-based evidence” (with Tobias Bernaisch and Aminath Saeed).

Guest Lecture, 21st May 2026, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Germany, Lecture on “English in the Maldives”.

Guest Lecture, 16th-17th July 2025, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Germany, Lecture on “English in the Maldives”.

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