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• Empowerment and Disempowerment: Sri Lankan English and British English. Attitudes of the Speakers of English as a Second Language in Sri Lanka Regarding Their English Accent 

  Keerthiwansha, N.W.B.S. (In: Proceedings of the International Postgraduate Research Conference 2017 (IPRC – 2017), Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)

  English was never just a language for Sri Lankans as it was for Indians, Japanese and Chinese and to a lot of other Asian nations. In Sri Lanka, it presented a far more significant social connotation than a mere linguistic ...
• World Englishes in the classroom: A critical literature review of attitudes towards variation in English among teachers of English 

  Fernando, Dinali (Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Colombo, 2020)

  The study of language attitudes has long been a significant area of research. Generally adopting social psychological approaches, language attitudes research at present is dominated by studies of attitudes towards World ...
• English Education in Sri Lanka; English department of the universities and their contribution. 

  Jinadasa M P K (International Conference on Social Sciences, Hotel Galadari, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2014)

  This paper looks at the contribution of the departments of English of the universities and their impact on the local English education. Even though more than thirteen years of period of English teaching in the school, ...