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A Study On Language Socialization In Bilingual Daycares Around Nugegoda
(Proceedings of the Undergraduate Research Symposium (HUG 2018), Department of English Language Teaching, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, 2018) Weerarathna, A.M.P.H.
Inspired by the developmental stages of the first language acquisition (FLA), and with the context and cultural situations, the current study of learning patterns in daycares explores the language socialization as a main aspect of language acquisition. Considerably, this study aims to identify the specific steps of learning patterns for the language socialization and the effectiveness of the learning patterns for language socialization of the kids. In order to do this, a bilingual daycare was selected around Nugegoda. Thereafter, a reflective journal was written regarding the first visit and schedule of the daycare. The creative curricular activities of the kids were observed and images were taken, and the head of the centre and a teacher were interviewed. Generally, the findings of the study were language socialization takes place through the communication within the kids and with the teachers, identification of things in the world and the awareness of the culture and the society with various activities done collaboratively with kids as well as teachers and maids. Further, the specific learning patterns including indoor, outdoor and extracurricular activities have been effective for the language socialization of the kids as in the socio-cultural theory of Vygotsky.
A Study on Speech Accommodation of Bilingual Preschoolers around Nugegoda Area
(Proceedings of the Undergraduate Research Symposium (HUG 2019), Department of English Language Teaching, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya. Sri Lanka, 2019) Weerarathna, A.M.P.H.
In linguistics, accommodation is the process by which participants in a conversation adjust their accent, diction, or other aspects of language according to the speech style of the other participant. It is used to be called linguistic accommodation, speech accommodation, and communication accommodation. Thus, the study attempts to investigate the speech accommodation of bilingual preschoolers around Nugegoda area which is evident that there is less research conducted on this area in the Sri Lankan context. Moreover, the study will investigate the process of speech accommodation of the bilingual preschoolers around Nugegoda area and relevant to speech accommodation, clarifies the language switching operation or any other action they apply with their communication competence. The sample is randomly selected 6 preschoolers of 3-5 years old; 3 random preschoolers from each preschool were chosen. Furthermore, a qualitative data collection method through naturalistic observation on bilingual preschoolers with audio recordings is used in the study. Naturalistic observation with audio recordings will be done in 6 days with 2 other supporters to the researcher. 3 sessions of each preschooler will be observed; peer- peer communication, teacher- preschooler communication and stranger- preschooler. The recorded sessions will be transcribed and analyzed in qualitative in-depth analysis through data driven coding. As the research is in process, up to now 3 preschoolers were observed in 3 sessions mentioned before. Considerably, current findings show there‟s a natural combination in between the preschooler and teacher as well as preschooler and peer, but, there‟s a comparison in the communication process of stranger and preschooler.