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The Lack of the Sinhalese Language Literacy among the Students: A Case Study of a School in Kolonnawa Educational Division

Wickramasinghe, P.D.D.D. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

Sri Lanka has a commendable record for one of the highest literacy rates in the South East Asia. This achievement can be largely attributed to the free education system of the country which came into operation since 1945. ...
Language Acquisition Patterns: A Case Study of a Child Acquiring Sinhalese as the First Language

Weerawardhana, V. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

Child language acquisition is an innate strategy which reveals the psychological base of human language. Innate hypothesis is the pre-knowledge of the language. Human beings are born with this ability of internalising the ...
Language Policies and Social Cohesion in Multilingual States: Some Personal Observations

Lewis, R.L. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

This paper is meant simply to be an opening point for a continuation of an ongoing discussion of multilingualism within states and regions vis-à-vis: Civil and criminal law, law enforcement, domestic educational policy, ...
Language Policy Implementation: A Comparative Study between Sri Lanka and Canada

Wickramasinghe, P.D.D.D. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

Accommodation of a multi-ethnic population within a territory of a single state has been largely acknowledged as a worldwide issue due to the problems stemming out from the linguistic disparities. In the most of the countries ...
The Language Used by Mahouts to Communicate with Captive Elephants in Mid Country of Sri Lanka

Subasinghe, S.A.M.T. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

Elephants have served man all the way through ages in numerous ways, for man has captured and tamed them from wilds for his purposes. This report presents an analysis of the language used by mahouts to communicate with the ...
Lexical Differences between Tamil and Sri Lankan Tamil

Palanirajan, G. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

The aim of the study is to analyse reciprocal comprehension between Tamil and Sri Lankan Tamil native speakers. The languages Tamil and Sri Lankan Tamil are commonly regarded as two particularly closely related members of ...
Lexical Features and Variations of Sri Lankan English in Sri Lankan Internet Memes

Nilesm, J.S. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

The emergence and validation of New Englishes is often assessed within the framework of the „Dynamic Model of the Evolution of New Englishes‟ developed by Edgar Schneider (2003; 2007) in which New Englishes are formed by ...
A Linguistic Study on Abbreviations in the Japanese Language

Jayathilake, H.M.D.T.K. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

This paper is a linguistic analysis and a study of abbreviations in the Japanese language and the manner in which such abbreviations are effected. Abbreviations of Japanese terms that are used frequently, are a recent ...
A Linguistic Study on the Japanese Translation of “Viragaya”

Dayarathne, P.N.N.D. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

This research discusses the possible cultural influences on translation with special reference to the cultural words found in Professor Tadash Noguchi‟s Japanese translation of the Sinhalese novel “Viragaya” by Martin ...
The Logical Relationship between the Writing Errors and the Acquisition Order of the English Grammatical Morphemes

Jeyaseelan, S.; Wijeratne, W.M. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

The study of the acquisition of the grammatical morphemes seems to be a key concern of this study in terms of the order of acquisition. Acquisition order is very much inter-related with the process of second language ...
Lullabies Enrich Child Linguistic Development

Nandakumara, U.A. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

This research paper confers the importance of lullabies being sung to children, commencing from the pre-linguistic stage of language acquisition until the end of the first few years of the infancy. Thus, this report deals ...
A Method to Sort Official Correspondence through Natural Language Processing

Weerasooriya, T.; Perera, N. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

Natural language Processing (NLP) is a new branch of study in Computational Linguistics and the field has undergone rapid development over the past few decades. Keyword extraction is a popular application of NLP. The present ...
Morphological Characteristics of Sri Lankan English: Some New Observations

Thumbowila, T.M.; Ghosh, R. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

This paper demonstrates how Sri Lankan English (SLE) has a unique lexical repertoire from distinct from other varieties of English used in the Asian subcontinent. It examines the contribution of morphology in developing a ...
Morphosyntactic Parallels and Contrasts in Sri Lankan Contact Language Participial Constructions

Slomanson, P. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

The Sri Lankan contact varieties of Malay (SLM) and Portuguese (SLP) share features they do not share with other Sri Lankan languages, including pre-verbal functional markers for tense, mood and aspect (TMA) contrasts. ...
Mother Tongue Interference on English as a Second Language on Undergraduates' Writing

Gardihewa, P.N. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

Second language learners try to use the second language in terms of first language‟s point of view. The purpose of this study was to make ESL learners aware of the gravity of mother tongue intrusion and to analyse certain ...
Past Tense in Jaffna Tamil and Sinhala: A Contrastive Study

Senthuran, S. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

Sri Lankan nation consists of varied cultures, languages and religions. Tamil and Sinhala are the major languages spoken in Sri Lanka. Sinhala belongs to the Indo-Aryan language family and Tamil belongs to the Dravidian ...
A Postmethod Pedagogy; Reality or Fallacy in Enhancing Teacher Growth: Special Focus on Higher Education in Sri Lanka

Herath, H.M.U.K. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

Postmethod pedagogy, emerged as an alternative to the concept of method and method based pedagogy which consists of so many limitations, basically focuses on the professional growth of the teachers in ESL teaching and ...
Preferences on Learning English as a Second Language

Jayasundara, J.M.P.V.K. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

English occupies the place of a Second Language (ESL) in primary, secondary and tertiary levels playing an inevitable role in the Sri Lankan education arena. Moreover, the necessity of English as a medium of instruction ...
The Problems Encountered in Religious Translation and How to Overcome Them

Jayasinghe, D.G.T.A. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

The present study deals with the problems encountered in religious translation, which is one of the most complex areas of translation studies. In this area the translator faces some serious difficulties such as understanding ...
The Problems Encountered in Using Communicative Language Teaching in Teaching German as a Foreign Language

Cooray, B.M.S. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

This paper focuses on the difficulties encountered by the teachers in using communicative teaching method in teaching German as a foreign language. The communicative language teaching which emerged in the 1970s and 1980s ...

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