Junior Research Symposia
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Item The Importance of Television in Order to Improve English as a Second Language among Children(Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Peiris, T.G.The purpose of this study is to determine whether the television channels can make sensible influence in improving the English knowledge among the children in the country. Fluency in a second language is of course not an easy task, but not an impossible task as well. Teaching methodologies and techniques need to be modernised and lacking of such will cause the difficulty in improving the task. Further the starting age of studies is also a reason for the issue and those two reasons have become the significant reason for the drawback of the second language among the children. According to the recent researches, it is found that language proficiency of a child is highly improved between the ages of2-4 years and therefore, it is possible to teach both mother tongue and the second language to the child during that age, the proficiency of both languages could be optimised. This study concern the possibility of doing such improvement assuming that television channel could be done the same in successful manner. But unfortunately still such influencing study channel is not being performed in Sri Lanka. But, such channels are very popular in most of the countries and those international charmels are being telecasting in locally too. The expected progress oflanguage proficiency could be compare with the children who do follow such channels and who do not follow the charmels. Further, they could be interview and also could be observed the day to day activities usage of vocabulary and the way of communication among them in order to compare with the progress. The final objective is the proficiency or improvement of children in commanding the second language among themselves through television charmel.Item First Language Interference in the Usage of English as the Second Language in Sri Lanka(Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) de Silva, P.M.The English Language is considered as the second language in Sri Lanka and it plays the role of the linking language as well . Therefore, Sri Lankan citizens give a priority to learn English well .Though Sri Lankan English learners are good at writing English, sometimes when they speak English, they use the Sinhalese structure involuntarily .Not only in speaking, but in writing as well, some people use the Sinhalese structure When Sinhalese .people speak in English, their speech differs fromthat of native speakersbecause of the mother .tongue interference Not only through borrowing English words, but also in the manner that sh sentencesEngliare made by the Sinhalese who arewell educated inEnglish , the interference is notably high. Hence the research focuses on exploring first language interference in the usage of English as the second language in Sri Lanka. The research was conducted by interviewing Sri Lankans who learn English as a second Language .Secondary data were gathered from books and internet .The sentence structure in English is completely different from the sentence structure in Sinhalese and through this study, problems which arise through differences in language structures and their influence on learning English Language are discussed. Thus, this research draws attention towards the ways in which mother tongue interfere in the usage of English Language as the second language in Sri Lanka.Item Pronunciation errors in English among Sri Lankan school children(Department of English, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Hewawasam, I.A.; Amaratunga, J.G.I.D.; Udakumbura, U.D.L.; Pramodya, K.G.H.; Vithanage, V.G.P.M.The aim of this research is to figure out pronunciation errors of English among school children. The significance of this research is identifying the common pronunciation errors made by Sri Lankan school children and finding resolutions to overcome those errors. In the past researchers have investigated on this matter with a common perspective in mind. A necessity was identified to conduct a research on the pronunciation errors in the English language among Sri Lankan school children. In this research, errors made by Sri Lankan school children who speak English as a second language were detected. A group of students from a reputed school in a suburb of Colombo were selected as the participants. Questionnaires were given to them in order to identify errors. According to the research, the students who have a broader exposure to English outside the school make fewer mistakes. The results suggest that the students tend to make pronunciation errors due to the influence of their mother tongue. It can be concluded that proper guidance and constant practice should be provided for the school children to improve the clarity of their English language pronunciation.