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Item Buddhism, Mindfulness Based Intervention and the Eclectic Parenting Style Construct in Sri Lankan Female Undergraduates(2016) Widyalankara, R.C.Literature states that Authoritative parenting style has a significant role in predicting high quality academic achievement. The hypothesis of this study, while recognizing the positive correlation between authoritative parenting style and academic achievement, investigates the contribution of the demandingness and control of authoritarian parenting and the indulgent responsiveness of permissive parenting towards academic achievement. The religious dimension: Buddhism, is kept a constant and is examined as a contributing factor. Thus the population of the research, middle class, female undergraduates high in academic achievement are Buddhists. Utilizing a quantitative approach the instrument consisted of a Parental Styles Dimensions Questionnaire. A sample of 50 undergraduates of the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka obtained under selective followed by random sampling procedures are the respondents of the study. The mean age for the sample is 23.31 years and all are female. Academic performance was measured through the GPA obtained at the end of the academic year 2014/2015 and all participants recorded an above 3.5 score. As data analysis procedures the study employs descriptive level mean and standard deviation methods. The results indicated that the Authoritative Parenting Style was primarily used by the parents of the undergraduates. But characteristics of authoritarian and permissive parenting styles too had a lesser but significant presence in their upbringing. Thus, based on the evaluation on the tertiary level undergraduate population, it is hypothesized that an eclectic method in parenting contributes towards academic achievement enhanced through maximized Buddhist values founded on mindfulness based intervention.Item Can virtual space become the Zone of Proximal Development? Online architecture optimization of ESL courses through Learning Analytics(2016) Widyalankara, R.C.This study recognizes that the provision of Vygotsky’s More Knowledgeable Others (MKOs) within the Zone of Proximal Development of online courses as a unique challenge to all stakeholders. Extending the data-driven decision making culture at the Centre for Distance and Continuing Education of University of Kelaniya to the newly introduced online course English for Communication, the aim of this study is to develop a learning analytics mindset to predict at-risk students enabling timely intervention. Further, future cohorts of the course are provided analytics on student performance thus enabling them to take decisions to improve the course especially to address the necessity for increased MKO availability. Capturing attendance data benefits the need to identify reasons for absenteeism. The instrument was a 100 mark allotting paper which evaluated three of the four skills: Reading, Writing and Speaking. The total population was stratified into 19 centres across provinces. The corpus for analysis (n= 3700) was selected under stratified random sampling procedures from which approximately 200 papers were shortlisted from each centre. Findings illustrate the diversity of Poverty and prosperity indices and Digital denizenship across the provinces have a significant influence on the performance of the population. The % mean marks distribution indicated a strong variation based on the province. Thus this study provides Learning analytics which constructs an information-rich landscape for the functional groups for understanding and optimizing the learning process of the students who offer the course. The findings benefit educational mandates of similar institutions who face the challenge of handling groups which are non-monolithic in proficiency in English and Digital denizenship but who are monolithic in size.Item Cross cultural aspects of classroom management in Sri Lanka(2014) Widyalankara, R.C.Item Does proficiency in the second language influence bilingual(2014) Widyalankara, R.C.Item Bilingual pronunciation and first language dominancy(2014) Widyalankara, R.C.Item Teaching English as a second language = Theory + Methods + Creativity(2014) Widyalankara, R.C.Item Cooperative and collaborative language learning: an action plan(2014) Widyalankara, R.C.Item Vocabulary acquisition through reading and provision of glosses(Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2010) Widyalankara, R.C.Item The judicious analysis of The Nightingale and the Rose for people of fifteen(Journal of Humanities and Social Science (IOSR-JHSS), 2015) Widyalankara, R.C.Item The expediency hypothesis and models of secondary term formation in ICT terminology in Sinhala: A bilingual corpus analysis(International Journal of Scientific & Research Publications, 2015) Widyalankara, R.C.