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  • The Impact of Studying English Literature in Improving English as a Second Language 
    Karunarathna, J.A.M.B. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    The four language skills are of varying degrees of importance to the second language learner. Listening and reading are considered as the receptive skills of language and speaking and writing are considered as the productive ...
  • Ardeshir Cowasjee Centre for Writing at the Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan: A Case Study 
    Hassan, M. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    This paper presents the case of Ardeshir Cowasjee Centre for Writing at IBA, Karachi, Pakistan as a useful solution for the writing related needs of university students of ESL background. The study determines that in ...
  • The Extending of Sinhala Diglossia under English Influence 
    Premaratna, C.D.H.M. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Diglossia, or the use of two varieties, namely High (H) and Low (L) of a language in a single speech community is widespread. The difference between the two varieties is that the non-standard L variety is used for everyday ...
  • Difficulties Faced by Sri Lankan Students in the United States of America due to the Regional Dialectal Differences of American English 
    Hordagoda, R. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Every year, a considerable amount of Sri Lankan students go to the USA to pursue their undergraduate and postgraduate studies. Most of them are familiar with the British English, as a result of which they face difficulties ...
  • Challenges of Learning Tamil as an Official Language: A Study on Public Sector Officials 
    Kanchana, D.G. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    There are large numbers of laws, government circulars and implementing agencies in which the language policy should be implemented to improve bilingual skills of the public sector officials. When it comes to the Sinhala ...
  • An Examination on the Semantic Adversation of the Sinhalese Language 
    Sameera, M.A.G.J. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    As a living language, the Sinhalese language has come to its present status after going through a numerous number of changes to all its components. Any given word of a language has a meaning of its own, which cannot be ...
  • 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 Use of Music as an Effective Tool in English as a Second Language Classrooms to Teach Verb Forms 
    Gamage, S.U. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Today, most of the ESL learners in Sri Lanka consider English language learning as anxiety packed, insipid and an unconquerable obstacle. Moreover, Karunarathna (1993) has mentioned that the methods employed by the facilitator ...
  • 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 Difficulties Encountered in Literary Translation and the Possible Solutions 
    Jayasinghe, D.G.T.A. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    This study focuses the attention on the difficulties encountered in literary translation and the ways of overcoming them in producing an effective translation. Accordingly, the difficulties that a translator may encounter ...
  • Second Language Anxiety among Undergraduates of Three Sri Lankan Universities 
    Siriwardena, S. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    A considerable number of second language learners suffer from language anxiety when they enter the second language classroom. Most of them express their anxiety of the language in different forms, to the extent that students ...
  • Tibeto Burman Languages of Northeast India: Problems and Prospects 
    Basumatary, A. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    North East India is the eastern most region of India and constitutes 8% of India‟s size. According to 2011 census, its population is nearly 40 million. The majority of the languages spoken in North East India mostly belong ...
  • 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 Role of Orthography in Dyslexia 
    Pandey, K.K.; Jha, S. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    The objective of the paper is to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the syllabic and alpha-syllabic writing system and the role of grapheme to phoneme conversion among dyslexic children. Researches in the area 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 ...
  • Effectiveness of Using Grammar - Translation and Direct methods in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language 
    Kariyawasam, K.B.G.W.S. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    The Chinese language is the most popular language in all over the world. In recent years, Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (TCFL) has caused a mania in the world with more schools and universities opening up Chinese ...
  • Future Tense in Spoken Tamil and Spoken Sinhalese: A Comparative Analysis 
    Subramaniam, A. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Syntax differs from language to language. The second language learners find it hard to understand the syntax of the language they learn when it differs from the syntax of their mother tongue. Thus the similarities and ...
  • 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 ...
  • Errors in the Use of English Articles 
    Wanasinghe, W.M.S.P.K. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    This study aims at providing a comprehensive account of the types of errors produced by Sri Lankan ESL students in their use of English articles. Within the field of second language research (SLR), a large number of studies ...
  • 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 ...

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