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    Parental Attitude Towards Their Children Becoming Bilinguals
    (Proceedings of the Undergraduate Research Symposium (HUG 2018), Department of English Language Teaching, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Bamunusinghe, H.
    First language acquisition of a child is determined by the attitudes of the care takers in the choices of which languages to teach their children, how to teach them and when to begin. Mostly the parents who use more than one language at home have to face with this decision and bilingualism has become a good solution to their decision. Therefore, the present case study illustrates the topic by interviewing the care takers and observing a child of 3 years old over a period of 2 months. The observations were done while the child was interacting with his primary and secondary caregivers in order to investigate the language they use. The main findings of the study were that all the interviewees had positive attitudes to bilingualism and they were very much involved in motivating their child becoming a bilingual in Sinhala and English. They believed that bilingualism would assist the educational progress of their child. In the following case study, care takers’ strategies for the language skills in the home and their attitudes to bilingualism will be presented in detail.
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    Benefits of Learning Foreign Languages in University of Kelaniya
    (English Language Teaching Unit, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Galagoda, B.; Almeida, A.; Bamunusinghe, H.; Dilanthi, M.; Prabodika, N.
    This paper is based on the benefits of learning foreign languages in University of Kelaniya. This describes that learning a foreign language offers numerous benefits. The students of University of Kelaniya who are currently following a course in foreign languages will be the participants of this research. This will explain why the undergraduates should choose to learn a foreign language and the benefit of learning foreign languages. This study shows that there are better job opportunities and can have scholarships through learning foreign languages. There are various language certificate courses within the university but unfortunately the undergraduates rarely participate in them. The researchers are aware that these language learners often find it difficult when it comes to learning a foreign language, but, the attempt of the researchers is to make awareness among the students of University of Kelaniya. This case study adopts a qualitative approach as it seeks information through interviews, discussions and observations. In conclusion, the intention of the researchers is to nurture the fields of foreign languages which should be a vast area to improve language skills among the students of University of Kelaniya.