Aishath Suad is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Education of the Maldives National University. She completed Master of English Language and Linguistics from Universiti of Brunie Darussalam and Bachelor of Teaching English as a Foreign Language from the Maldives National University. 

• World Englishes 
• Applied linguistics 
• Sociolinguistics 
• Bilingual Education 

• Introduction to Linguistics 
• Learning a Second Language 
• Sociolinguistics in Education 
• Bilingual Learner 

• Methods and Pilot Data for the Empirical Description of Forms and Usage of English in the Maldives

(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). 

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).

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

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

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