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Item A Study of Library Collection in Sri Lanka Advanced Technological Educational Institutions in Sri Lanka (SLIATE)(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Balasooriya, B.A.P.The library is the place where rapidly increasing huge volume of knowledge and information is collected, organized for the dissemination to the users. The knowledge and information gathered in different resources are collected in libraries and these emulative resources belong to library collection. Within this content, library collection plays a significant role. This study is based on the evaluation of library collection. Objectives of the paper is to identify the library collection in Advanced Technological Educational Institute libraries to study the collection pattern and how organized it, to examine the suitability of collection with the study programs in SLIATE, to investigate the uptodateness of the collection. The research method adopted was the survey and the population was total students and academic staff and the sample were 250 Diploma final year students and 10 Lecturers including of library staff selected from all SLIATE in western and southern provinces. It was identified total collections cover with mainly textbook, there was a lack of other library materials. Library service conducted on traditional method, no internet facilities. The collection was not updated and weeding has not been done. Suggestions are made to improve library collection with additional books which are related to course conducted by SLIATE. Library opening hours have to be extended on readers demands, new collection development policy and weeding should be initiated. It is better if libraries take action to utilize new methods in the acquisition of library material.Item The difficulties in Chinese language acquisition of Sinhala speaking students(Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Kandambi, S.U.Chinese is one of the most ancient languages in the world spoken by the people not only in the mainland of China mainland, but also in other regions. Learning the Chinese language has become important in several countries due to issues linked to economic development. The Chinese language is a historical language which belongs to the Chinese-Tibetan language family. It script belongs one of the most historical writing systems called "Hanzi". In recent times, Sri Lanka has also stepped towards teaching Chinese language as a second language in order to overcome communication difficulties. In order to understand the difficulties associated with Chinese language acquisition, it is important to analyze the structure of the first language as well as the Chinese languages through a comparative study. This research examines Chinese language acquisition by comparing it with Sinhala. When Sinhalese-speaking students learn the Chinese language, the major problem faced by students is the difference in between the language structures of Chinese and Sinhala, as Sinhala follows SOV (subject, object, verb) structure and Chinese follows SVO (subject, verb, object) language structure. In addition, when learning Chinese, students make a number of acquisition errors due to the absence of several language phrases in their own mother tongue. For instance, in Chinese, there are several set phrases such as "méi guan xi” (It's ok), “bù yòng xiè” (no thanks), “bù kè qì” (no need to be polite) which do not appear in the Sinhala language. Thus, the learners face difficulties due to the absence of those phrases in Sinhala. Therefore, Sinhala-speaking students should also keep in touch with the English language in order to solve the communication problems somehow as no such particular word phrases exist in their own language. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the difficulties faced by Sinhala speaking students and provide a clear understanding of the differences between Sinhala and Chinese languages.