ICLSL 2017: Recent submissions

  • Edirisooriya, E. A. I. R. (The Third International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka, ICLSL 2017. Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    This study aims to identify the effective teaching methods in teaching Korean monophthongs to the Sinhala native speakers learning Korean as a foreign language. The learners of Korean Language in the beginner level meet ...
  • Edirisinghe, E. M. H. J.; Ratwatte, H.V. (The Third International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka, ICLSL 2017. Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    Code switching (CS) or translanguaging in the ESL classroom has been viewed from different perspectives. Some scholars like Chi (2000), Brown (2001), Macaro (2001), Tang (2002), Lie and Martin (2009) have shown that the ...
  • Douglas, S. (The Third International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka, ICLSL 2017. Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    The debate of including or excluding the students‟ native language to an English as a second language classrooms has been a contentious issue for a long time. There is a need to experiment this issue and investigate the ...
  • Dissanayake, S. A. R. R. P. (The Third International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka, ICLSL 2017. Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    There is growing evidence in the field of psycholinguistics that children are sensitive to the properties of multi-word combinations of building blocks, which include multi-word chunks. These chunks, when used in early ...
  • Disanayake, D.M.K.H. (The Third International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka, ICLSL 2017. Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    This paper attempts to appraise the success of allowing L1 to be used in ESL classroom to a limited extent in achieving the targets of ESL teaching, first teachers being aware of instances where and how they should use L1 ...
  • Dissanayaka, G.R. (The Third International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka, ICLSL 2017. Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    The 19th century opens by making Sri Lankans a part of the British Rule. The upward mobility of certain families in the Southern and Western maritime regions also gave impetus take over the patronage of establishing new ...
  • Dilshani, W.S.N.; Dias, G. (The Third International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka, ICLSL 2017. Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    Verbs are essential components of a meaningful sentence and are important in understanding the sentence structure. This paper presents a morphological analysis of Sinhala verbs by combining traditional Sinhala grammar with ...
  • Dilshani, N.; Fernando, S.; Ranathunga, S.; Jayasena, S.; Dias, G. (The Third International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka, ICLSL 2017. Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    Sinhala, which belongs to Indo-Aryan language family, is a morphologically complex language. Most of the features of the words are postpositionally affixed to the root word. Thus, well-developed Part of Speech (POS) tag ...
  • Gunasinghe, U.P.; Diddeniya, C.V. (The Third International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka, ICLSL 2017. Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    Learning a new language and translating it into another language is not an easy task. However, currently there is a significant emphasis on translating one language into another. The term of “Translation” has come into ...
  • Gunasinghe, M.P.D. (The Third International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka, ICLSL 2017. Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    Translations, throughout the past, have been done by the human translators; but today, along with the technology, keeping a step ahead, the human translators are being replaced by machine translators. Systran‟s translation ...
  • Dhammanisanthi Thero, Ekala (The Third International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka, ICLSL 2017. Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    Language is one of the most valuable tools ever produced by humans for the communication of thoughts through verbal medium to have a good comprehension about its ethical background. The piece of knowledge conveyed through ...
  • De Zoysa, A. (The Third International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka, ICLSL 2017. Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    The genre of Sinhala Narrative Poetry called “Viridu” has been a source of entrainment that can be traced right back to the courts of the Kings of Kotte and Kandy of the 17th and 18th century. The strong narrative element ...
  • De Silva, J. (2017)
    In translation theory, the term „cultural transposition‟ stands for the various extents of departure from literal translation in the process of transferring the contents of a source text into the context of a target culture. ...
  • Dayananda, G.M.C.M.; Premaratne, C. D. H. M. (The Third International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka, ICLSL 2017. Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    Beliefs are a main construct in the process of Language learning. Students‟ beliefs on the methodology that their teachers employ in improving language skills of the students play a major role in English language teaching ...
  • Daladawaththa, B.L. (The Third International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka, ICLSL 2017. Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    It is often argued whether corrective feedback in spoken discourse leads to better performance of English as Second Language (ESL) learners. The objective of this study is to explore the impact of corrective feedback on ...
  • Cooray, B.M.S. (The Third International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka, ICLSL 2017. Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    The German term “Binnendifferenzierung”, is often referred to as internal differentiation, which signifies all forms of differentiation within a group of learners who are taught jointly, using variety of methods to deal ...
  • Chandrasoma, K.M.K.U. (The Third International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka, ICLSL 2017. Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    Teaching English as a second language is gaining prominence within the scope of language teaching, where Task-based Language Teaching plays a major role, as it is comparatively a new method of English language teaching. ...
  • Caldera, A.U. (The Third International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka, ICLSL 2017. Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    Adapting the local context in cartoon dubbing has become a growing trend in Sri Lanka today. In this process, in spite of the creativity, disappearance of the original story, losing the opportunity of learning English and ...
  • Yu Bo (The Third International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka, ICLSL 2017. Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    Learning strategies are one of the most important individual differences in learners. It also provides a better understanding of metacognition, cognition, social and emotional processes in second language acquisition, which ...
  • Basumatary, A. (The Third International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka, ICLSL 2017. Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    Negation is a process or construction in grammatical and semantic analysis in all languages which typically expresses the contradiction of some or all of a sentence meaning. Many linguists have worked on various aspects ...

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