Towards an inclusive standard Sri Lankan English for ELT in Sri Lanka: Identifying and validating phonological features of Sri Lankan English of Tamil speakers

Fernando, Dinali; Sivaji, Karuna

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Towards an inclusive standard Sri Lankan English for ELT in Sri Lanka: Identifying and validating phonological features of Sri Lankan English of Tamil speakers

Fernando, Dinali; Sivaji, Karuna

URI: http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/26036

Citation: Fernando, Dinali and Sivaji, Karuna (2014). Towards an inclusive Standard Sri Lankan English for ELT in Sri Lanka: identifying and validating phonological features of Sri Lankan English of Tamil Speakers. In K. de Abrew, N Abayasekera and C Jayasinghe (eds.) Changing Paradigms in English Language Teaching: Selected Papers from the 7th International Conference of the English Language Teachers’ Association (pp 17-26). Colombo: SLELTA

Date: 2014

Abstract:

This paper reports on a study that investigates the views of teachers of English in the Northern Province on the unique phonological features of Jaffna English, a variety of Sri Lankan English (SLE) that has its own unique syntactic, morphological as well as phonological features (Selvadurai 1983, Saravanapava Iyer 2001, Sivapalan, Ramanan and Thiruvarangan 2010). The main research area of this paper is World Englishes in the context of English language teaching (ELT), focusing on variation within SLE phonology.

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