Browsing by Author "Jayarathna, D."

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Facebook as a Platform to Develop Paragraph Writing Skills of Tertiary Level ESL Learners

Jayarathna, D. (Proceedings of the Undergraduate Research Symposium (HUG 2019), Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019)

Facebook, being one of the most visited social media sites in the world as well as in Sri Lanka, is identified as an exceptional source of influence on language learning. Especially, Facebook groups are effective applications ...
Morphological Processes of SLE In Present Day Social Media

Jayarathna, D.; Wazeer, S.; Weerawarna, N. (Proceedings of the Undergraduate Research Symposium (HUG 2018), Department of English Language Teaching, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018)

Sri Lankan English (SLE) has an exclusive lexical repertoire distinct from other varieties of English used in the Asian subcontinent. The study of SLE morphology in social media is relatively an understudied area in the ...
Target language or the first language? Employing first language in teaching grammar for undergraduates in a second language classroom

Amarasinghe, H.; Jayarathna, D.; Gamage, C. (Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2022)

The impact of first language instruction in second language teaching and learning is a debatable area of research in which different scholars hold different views on the pedagogical usage of first language instruction in ...

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