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  • Attitudes towards Sri Lankan English: An Attitudinal Survey in a University Context 
    Karunanayake, S. (19th Conference on Postgraduate Research, International Postgraduate Research Conference 2018, Faculty of Graduate Studies,University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018)
    Sri Lankan English makes sense for anyone who had resided in Sri Lanka. In the words of Michael Meyler, "Sri Lankan English is the language spoken and understood by those Sri Lankans who speak English as their first language, ...
  • The impact of Task-Based Language Teaching in improving English-speaking skills in the ESL classroom 
    Karunanayake, S. (International Conference on the Humanities (ICH 2018/2019), Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018)
    There has been a major shift towards the communicative approach and student-centered learning in education in the last few decades, reducing the amount of teacher talking time (TTT). That is one of the reasons to use ...
  • Strategies to Minimize Learner Anxiety in Speaking English as a Second Language 
    Karunanayake, S. (International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019)
    Speaking is considered to be the most anxiety provoking aspect in a Second Language learning situation. This nervousness or anxiety seems to be triggering when the students are asked to speak in the second language in ...
  • A Study on the Awareness of Sri Lankan English among Undergraduates. 
    Karunanayake, S. (The Third International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka, ICLSL 2017. Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    Michael Meyler (2007) defines Sri Lankan English as “the language spoken and understood by those Sri Lankans who speak English as their first language, and/or who are bilingual in English and Sinhala or Tamil”. Although ...

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