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Item Using PowerPoint Presentations to Enhance Student’s Learning: With Reference to Undergraduates of University of Kelaniya(19th Conference on Postgraduate Research, International Postgraduate Research Conference 2018, Faculty of Graduate Studies,University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) De Zoysa, H.N.PowerPoint can be used as a tool to facilitate teaching and learning. It guides students in note-taking, reinforcing points made in a lecture, and to inject occasional humor or visual reinforcement. Therefore, it helps students to learn more efficiently. But the problem is, are they using this tool to enhance their learning efficiently and effectively. The study aims to investigate the effectiveness of using power point presentations in classroom to enhance learning. Sub objectives are to examine student’s attitudes towards using PowerPoint presentations in learning and find out the strengths and weaknesses associated with using PowerPoint presentations. Fifty undergraduates from faculty of Social Sciences were randomly taken as the sample of this study. Methods such as interviews, questionnaires were used to collect primary data and magazines, books, journals and websites were used as secondary data. Data analysis was done both quantitatively and qualitatively. The analysis of the results revealed that the vast majority of students have positive attitudes towards the use of PowerPoint in the class room. This will help the students to learn this tool effectively and efficiently for their studies. SWOT analysis was done to find out the strengths and weaknesses of using PowerPoint presentations in the classroom. Moreover, it was found that PowerPoint improves the student’s learning motivation, it breaks down the daily routine of lectures and encouraging interaction between the teacher and the students. Based on the findings, it was concluded that the use of PowerPoint presentations enhances student’s learning efficiently and effectivelyItem Usage of Mobile Applications as a Resource in Teaching Phrasal Verbs(Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Amaraweera, S.Popularity of the usage of smartphones is widely observed among young undergraduates, who are increasingly dependent on these devices (Yu, 2012). Although commonly used in written and oral discourses, phrasal verbs are often omitted if their correct usage poses a hurdle to the English as a Second Language (ESL) learners. As a substitute for the use of phrasal verbs, ESL learners tend to use single word units (Imrose, 2013). This negligence of the use of phrasal verbs is surmised as an issue in the ESL teaching/ learning process. Thus, utilising the omnipresent smart devices, this research aims at promoting a novel method to determine the effectiveness of teaching phrasal verbs by the use of one of the popular mobile applications designed for communication. Thirty undergraduates were selected for this experimental study. Pre- and post-tests consisting of 40 commonly used phrasal verbs in a study carried by Liu (2011) based on two corpora – The Corpus of Contemporary American English and The British National Corpus were conducted. The first test was given without any instructions on the phrasal verbs and the post test was carried out after instructions. The experimental group comprising 50 per cent of the selected undergraduates were instructed in phrasal verbs using the selected mobile application throughout a period of eight days while the controlled group was given traditional classroom instructions within one hour. A comparative analysis of the results of both tests revealed that the experimental group outperformed in the post test than the controlled group highlighting the use of mobile applications in the English Language Teaching (ELT) process as an effective recourse in the teaching/ learning process of phrasal verbs.