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  • A Case Study On Care-Givers’ Language Variation 
    Jayathissa, D. (Proceedings of the Undergraduate Research Symposium (HUG 2018), Department of English Language Teaching, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018)
    The language used by the care-givers varies from one another and this variation affects on baby’s response towards each care-giver. Hence caregivers’ language variation directly effects on baby’s language acquisition in ...
  • The Challengers that Obstruct the Popularity of Street Drama in Sri Lanka 
    Jayasundara, K.H.J.S.K. (Drama & Theatre and Image Arts Unit, Department of Fine Arts, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    The aim of the study is to investigate the causes of the lack of popularity of Street Drama in the modern day. The purpose of this study is to focus on how street drama, which was popular in 1970, are not as popular ...
  • Challenges and Benefits of Bilingual Acquisition in Early Childhood 
    Kurukuladhithya, D.H. (Department of English, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    One would ultimately feel the need to learn another language in addition to one’s mother tongue. A survey conducted by ilanguages.org reveals that 60% of the world population speaks more than one language. However, for a ...
  • Challenges faced by the Female Tea pluckers in Sri Lanka: A study based on Galle District 
    Ponnamperuma, P. (Proceedings of the Undergraduate Research Symposium (HUG 2019), Department of English Language Teaching, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019)
    Tea plantation is a labour-intensive sector in Sri Lanka. The woman is marginalized and termed as the less skilled labour. Plucking is described as a skill that women have acquired through their nimble fingers. The main ...
  • Challenges Faced by the Legal Translators 
    Wijesinghe, W. H. M. S. M. (Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, 2021)
    The arena of Legal Translation faces some unique problems in the use of language. Unlike literary translations, legal texts are to be translated without any aesthetic effects. The vocabulary, grammar and the style of the ...
  • Challenges Faced By The Undergraduates Of State Universities Who Speak Minority Languages: An Exploration Of The Sri Lankan Language Policies On Higher Education 
    Randhuli, K.G.I.; Amarasinghe, H.P.; Kulathunga, K.M.J.S. (Proceedings of the Undergraduate Research Symposium (HUG 2018), Department of English Language Teaching, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018)
    The present study attempts to investigate the challenges encountered by the undergraduates who speak minority languages in Sri Lankan state universities. Although there are varied issues that the minority undergraduates ...
  • Challenges Faced by Translators in Translating Idioms from English to Sinhala 
    Siriwardhana, K.K.V.V.L. (Proceedings of the Undergraduate Research Symposium (HUG 2019), Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019)
    Many linguistic professionals mention that idioms are the most difficult phrases to translate. Moreover, most importantly, the meaning of these peculiar phrases cannot be predicted by the literary definitions without ...
  • Challenges faced by University Students in Foreign Language Acquisition 
    Randhuli, I.; Jayasinghe, M.; Samaraweera, S.; Kaushalya, K. (English Language Teaching Unit, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    University students encounter various challenges in learning a second or a foreign language. The research intends to figure out those challenges in making headway with the new target language from conversational to mastery. ...
  • Challenges of School Based Assessment (SBA) faced by the English Teachers in Sri Lanka 
    Dissanayake, S. (English Language Teaching Unit, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Educational evaluation is an indispensable part in the English as a Second Language (ESL) classroom. Assessment is the procedure where the teacher understands the level of achievement of students in order to rate, measure ...
  • Challenges of Teaching and Learning Science in English Medium Instruction; A Case Study on a National and a Provincial Level School in Colombo District 
    Bamunusinghe, H.H. (Proceedings of the Undergraduate Research Symposium (HUG 2019), Department of English Language Teaching, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019)
    English Medium Instruction (EMI) in teaching has occupied a prominent status at present with the expansion of English as a lingua franca in the modern world. Sri Lanka has implemented EMI in the secondary level education ...
  • Challenges of Translating Newspapers from Sinhala to English: With Reference to Political News 
    Rathnamalala, R.I.B.S.U. (Proceedings of the Undergraduate Research Symposium (HUG 2019), Department of , Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019)
    Within the spectrum of genres in news media, this study aims at print media (newspapers) and on sub genres called „news features‟ and „news articles‟ based on politics. In the journalistic field, especially in the field ...
  • Challenges Posed by Connotative and Denotative Meaningin Literary Translation 
    Pallewatta, P. G. D. S. (Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, 2021)
    Connotation can be defined as, the idea or feeling that a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning while denotation is the literal or primary meaning, of a word, in contrast to the feelings ...
  • The Change In The Usage Of Slang Terms Over Time; With Special Reference To Sinhalese Slang Terms Used For Women 
    Liyanage, S.; Nawalahewa, S. (Proceedings of the Undergraduate Research Symposium (HUG 2018), Department of Linguistics and Department of English, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018)
    Slang is a type of language consisting of words and phrases that are regarded as very informal. They often convey humour, discrimination, offense and mostly negative meanings. Over time, they either die out from lack of ...
  • Chinese Language as a soft-power instrument in Sri Lanka 
    Jayasinghe, D.P.S.N. (Proceedings of the Undergraduate Research Symposium (HUG 2019), Department of International Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019)
    The people‟s Republic of China is regarded as one of the most prominent countries which have utilized their soft power in order to expand their influence. PRC attempts to use its economic power through debt-trap diplomacy ...
  • Code mixing in the field of tuition particularly in Economics and Biology classes in Kiribathgoda area 
    Awanthika, T.; Hapuarachchi, P.; Ihalagama, H.; Samarasinghe, N. (Department of English, University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    Human language is the most effective medium of communication. Variations appear in the process of its development due to its mutability. Code mixing is an important concept in sociolinguistics and it is a highly discussed ...
  • Code-switching among Junior Secondary level students in Sri Lanka 
    Vithanage, A.M.H.; Weerasekara, W.M.P.H.; Paththinige, L.B.; Amarasinghe, C.J.; Ponnamperuma, D.A.O. (Department of English, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    The researchers’ exposure to the concept of code switching made them realize the lack of in-depth research on it among Sri Lankan schoolchildren. The aim of this research was to evince social and linguistic factors trapped ...
  • Colonial Period Language Planning in Sri Lanka 
    Perera, A. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    In linguistically heterogeneous societies, language planning constitutes core institutional practice for maintaining social cohesion as well as unique cultural identities. This study intends to examine the Colonial Period ...
  • Common Challenges of Translation 
    Thenuwara, Thedini Thidakshi Kavya (Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, 2021)
    Translation is one of the language skills, which is essential to be learned by translators and the students who are in the relevant field to be professional translators in the future. In the process of translating, the ...
  • Common errors in the use of locative prepositions: grade 4 ESL students 
    Aberathna, A.H.M.S. (Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    usage of English prepositions by ESL (English as a Second Language) learners. Prepositions are notoriously difficult for English language learners due to the large number of them in the English language and also due to ...
  • Comparative Analysis between Google Neural Machine Translation and Human Translation of Martin Wickramasinghe’s Madol Doova (Chapter IV) 
    Vimarshana, K. A. Desika (Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, 2021)
    Technology is replacing many duties that have been devoted to humans for decades. Translation too was not an easy task to complete. Because of that, experts in the field were interested in developing software for Translation. ...

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