Linguistics is the scientific study of language which includes the study of sounds, words and grammatical aspects. The rules of a language are learnt as one acquires a language. These rules include Phonology, Morphology, ...

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. ...

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 ...

The notion that there is a biologically determined period set for language acquisition is referred to as the Critical Period Hypothesis. This critical period which is thought to be sometime between age five and puberty has ...

This paper aims to probe the principal difficulties and barriers of the second language learners in the ESL classroom at tertiary level. This study mainly focuses on the barriers of learning English as a second language ...

Sanskrit and Prakrit are two ancient languages that show differences between them in terms of grammar and linguistic structure. Although Sanskrit and Prakrit are syntactically similar they show differences in their morphology ...

Main objective of bilingual education policy which replaced the English education in 2001 in Sri Lankan schools was promoting bilingualism and bi-literacy among the students while respecting and maintaining the value of ...

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 topic of this study is to analyse the patterns of spelling errors among the second language learners of English. The aim of this study is to account for the underlying causes of spelling errors made by the first year ...

The University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka provides the opportunity for the undergraduates to learn a number of foreign languages at the main subject level and at the certificate course level. Despite of such opportunities, a ...