The study focuses on the controversy, revolving around the teachers‟ use of the mother tongue (MT) in foreign language (FL) teaching. Specifically, this report concentrates on the examination of German teachers‟ and learners‟ ...

Contact literatures and bilinguals‟ creativity is a tremendously discussed topic in the global studies of linguistics. Yet, the studies of non-native English literatures animated with a wish to divulge the focal motifs ...

A language is considered to be split-ergative if the subject of intransitive verb and the object of transitive verb bear same case. In ergative languages, the subject of a transitive verb exhibits a special marked case ...

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 ...

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 ...

Language is utilised for building relationships among peers. Public Relation is a process of making strong understanding and image building among stakeholders of an institution. Despite the fact that variety of tools and ...

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 ...

English prepositions are often vague and confusing, and extremely hard for Sinhala speaking ESL (English as a second language) learners to learn the nuances of all the prepositions. Littlefield (2006) has found four ...

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 ...

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 ...