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  • 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 ...
  • Problems Faced by a Bilingual Child in Learning 
    Thilagarajan, N. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Generally, people start to learn a second language after a particular age when they would have a clear idea about a second language. However, in present society many children happen to be bilingual by birth, because of the ...
  • Problems in Translating Sinhala ‘weniya’ into English 
    Rajapakshe, R.M.W. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    One language may differ from another phonologically, morphologically, syntactically and semantically. There are, however, differences as well as similarities between two languages. The degree of those differences and ...
  • The Process of Translating and Editing of Pāli Texts in Sri Lanka from 19th Century to the Present 
    Rajapaksha, D.M. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    It is to be emphasised here that the pivotal objective of compilation, translation and edition of Pāli texts was not only to enhance Theravāda tradition in its pristine purity in Sri Lanka but also to ensure its perpetual ...
  • Quest for sustainability of Bilingual Education Programme in Sri Lanka: Lesson from Malaysia 
    Nanayakkara, P. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Bilingual Education Programme (BEP) in Sri Lanka , even after passing almost 15 years of age, still has its own challenges to meet. One of them is sustainability of the programme due to lack of clear and coherent policies. ...

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