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Sri Lankan Journal of South Asian Studies, 2017

The prime purpose of this study is to understand and highlight the reasons for the psychological ... more The prime purpose of this study is to understand and highlight the reasons for the psychological approach of students toward their subject and teacher. This paper tries to cover all aspects of students' psyche especially the general phenomenon of attitude in their subjects. Now a days many of the students studying at tertiary level, show varieties of attitudinal changes in the class room which creates enormous psychological tension to their teachers, that they find very difficult to express. Therefore, this paper is an attempt to identify and understand the problems that they face in the class and within themselves. This paper brings out the facts by incorporating all the hidden information and opinions provided by the students through Google forms. Thus, it can be an insight into all the psychological issues of studies. We discuss the statistical approach of analysis of variance for the verification of data analysis. It can be the best tool to examine the relations to compare and get the mean value among groups. Hence, whatever data we have taken for analysis, which gives the correct results for this test.

Students have been through various phases in their life wherein they have to make the toughest of... more Students have been through various phases in their life wherein they have to make the toughest of choices which are going to have a huge role to play in shaping their future. The toughest of all is when they realize the lack of information regarding choice of course. This is potentially capable of destroying their life that occurs at the end of their higher secondary education. This study focuses on understanding the mentality of students undergoing arts and science programs with respect to their career plan. Previous studies conducted in relevant fields relating to our chosen topic of research specifically focused on the psychology of a student going through the process of stream selection as well as the factors that affect his or her mentality relating to the same. These include many things such as social/peer pressure, parental influence, et cetera. The student's knowledge pertaining to this also plays an important role in student's choice.

IAEME Publication, 2018

English Language Teaching and its effect on learning is the focus area of researchers. Researcher... more English Language Teaching and its effect on learning is the focus area of researchers. Researchers in ELT are experimental in nature that demands objectivity and accuracy. Most of the ELT researchers use scientific analysis to arrive at the conclusions whether it reject or accept the hypothesis. Here the statistics is an unavoidable tool and helps the researcher to state their contributions. The proper analysis of the data alone can provide the true result. It demands proper knowledge of statistical techniques and tools. This paper goes through the role of statistics in research, various statistical techniques used to arrive at the conclusions and the various tools which offer these techniques according to the need. It suggests some best tools for ELT researchers by introducing the various features of existing tools.

The Task-Based Learning (TBL) is supported and teachers are instructed to train students in terms... more The Task-Based Learning (TBL) is supported and teachers are instructed to train students in terms of applied learning in Indian institutions. Nowadays, academicians encourage applied learning and changing the design of the syllabus. According to them, the learners are expected to invent details and perform their tasks during classroom sessions. Thus, TBL stands unique in assigning language practices to the learners. Moreover, the current syllabus is meant to have some components of Technical English, Business English, Soft Skills and a research project. Indeed, the project report is a new arrival in English Language Teaching to improve the skills of students in research writing. The aim of this paper is to describe the Task-Based Learning concept, and how teachers train their students through this methodology, thereby catering to their needs, focusing on language skills, so helping them to face the competitive world with required skills. Hence, the teachers take up the roles of facilitators, and drill the students with relevant activities. The outcome of lesson plans, teaching methodologies, students' feedbacks to the approaches of teachers, learners' performance, result of their performances, evaluation and recommendation.

Dr.T. Karunakaran is an experienced ESL teacher with a PhD in English Language Education from EFL... more Dr.T. Karunakaran is an experienced ESL teacher with a PhD in English Language Education from EFL University, Hyderabad and a TESL Certificate from Toronto District School Board, Canada. He serves as a Senior Lecturer in English Language Teaching, English Language Teaching Center, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka and has published books and research papers on Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, ELT and so on. He ardently conducts workshops and presents papers on ELT in Sri Lanka and abroad.

Sri Lankan Journal of South Asian Studies, 2017

IAEME Publication, 2018

Springer Series in Cognitive Development, 1982

... The profile of a bilingual individual is therefore constantly changing ... in L1 acquisition ... more ... The profile of a bilingual individual is therefore constantly changing ... in L1 acquisition from data among deprived children (eg Curtiss, 1977), and deaf children who started being exposed ... 6). According to Hakuta, to meet the conditions for (2), a linear decline in performance is not ...

Elementary Education Online, 2021

Various psycholinguistics strategies applied to the acquisition of second and third language has ... more Various psycholinguistics strategies applied to the acquisition of second and third language has become a prominent phenomenon in the last few decades. Yet there is paucity in the third language acquisition. The psycholinguistics strategies are used by few experts to teach second or third language. In this realm the cognitive method is used to acquire the language. The psycholinguistics principles bring out how one perceives the language and produces that particular language is important. While acquiring a third language from the medium of second language there is transference of second language rather than the first language to third language. Usually the structure of the second language is transferred to the third language. The learners commit errors when they acquire third language from the medium of second language. Normally the four skills of language acquisition are applied in the strategies of language acquisition. This article explains how psycholinguistic strategies affect the learning while acquiring a third language from the second language and how to rectify the committed errors.

Faculty of Arts ,University of Jaffna, 2017

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In Nepal, as everywhere in the world, the demand of higher education is growing more rapidly than... more In Nepal, as everywhere in the world, the demand of higher education is growing more rapidly than ever before. Nepal's education policy to provide free education up to secondary level clearly signals that there will be even more high school graduates entering universities in spite of the fact that the government will continue to allocate more of its budget on elementary and secondary school education. At this context, Nepal's higher education system suffers from confusion and uncertainty reflecting the larger political instability witnessing the Himalayan nation. With the lack of infrastructure, sustainable resources and concrete policy, higher education institutions are struggling hard to cater to the nation's need of human capital as a vehicle of national development. While looking forward to harness the fruits of globalization at the juncture of challenges and immense possibilities, Nepal needs to leverage its potential ingredients to overcome the current grim aspects and to move on towards desired expansion of access.

The paper presents the actual class-room experiment conducted with the B.A. Ist Year students of... more The paper presents the actual class-room experiment conducted with the B.A. Ist Year students of Todi College, Lachhmangarh, Sikar (Rajasthan). These students were presented with model Japanese poem ‘haiku’ and its technique was discussed with them and they were encouraged to write haikus on topics within their experiences. The result was quite satisfying. Thus they learnt to communicate in English through creative writing.(Key words: haiku, classroom experiment, communicate, thoughts and feelings)

This paper is dealing with history of the society and social concept with special focus of the cl... more This paper is dealing with history of the society and social concept with special focus of the class and equality concept from the West to East. Looking into the history says Western intellectual schools gave the name of this concept as Subaltern Studies, and first in the West the revolution started for the voiceless people. In Indian society also dominated by the same notion from the ancient tradition and following the West they also started raising voice for the poor and voiceless. It is a comparative study from the West to East with few intellectual's discussions and history of "Subaltern Study" in the progressive society.At the end also it will criticize the insufficiency of the concept and its impact in the Indian society and present society. Speaking for subalternity as subaltern could thus become a professional academic niche. We could expect Subaltern Studies to attain authority as an authentic voice of the postcolonial East in self-consciously Western academic localities which have been shaped intellectually by orientalism, area studies, and Cold War anti-communism, when scholars mobilize to oppose colonial forms of knowledge with post-orientalist critical theory, global cultural studies, and post-Marxist, post-colonial literary criticism.

Historiography is the art and science of writing history. For a deep understanding of history and... more Historiography is the art and science of writing history. For a deep understanding of history and the past, it is imperative to discover many aspects such as process, method, ideology, and intention-of historywriting of a given period. Thus, a historical trajectory of various ways of history-writing enables us to understand the past and history as textual artefacts. By examining the various historiographies of different periods of history, we can delve deep to uncover the nexus between history as the reconstruction of the past and history as it really happened. Moreover, the knowledge of various historiographical traditions can reveal the works of historians of different ages in a new perspective by penetrating many buried meanings of history and the past as well. A survey, comparison and contrastive analysis of various historiographical traditions will enrich our critical understanding of history and the past.

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This paper tries to bring the actual practice of bilingual education in Jaffna schools. A researc... more This paper tries to bring the actual practice of bilingual education in Jaffna schools. A research was undertaken in order to appraise the bilingual programs being conducted in the Jaffna schools, particularly in the post civil war scenario.

Acknowledging a seasoned axiom of relationality that essentially normativizes that the text, espe... more Acknowledging a seasoned axiom of relationality that essentially normativizes that the text, especially literary one, is eventual product of the time in history, a historical and critical re-reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925) significantly manifests the nexus between the production of the novel and the American society and its history. Historical events that occurred in his time have markedly constituted and shaped the larger and dominant narrative of this extraordinary fiction work of the first-quarter of the twentieth century of America. By disinterring those watershed events, it is to illustrate that how historical vicissitudes and subsequent outcomes of the particular time in American history led to nucleation of the provenance of the novel and its themes.

English Language Teaching Institute, Bikaner has been doing a Herculean effort to orient the teac... more English Language Teaching Institute, Bikaner has been doing a Herculean effort to orient the teachers of English towards new techniques of English Language Teaching. The publication of the Rajasthan ELTI Journal is now accessible to the regional academic and teaching community, where articles relating to ELT are published and viewed by the ELT professionals. The primary function of the Journal is to provide the readers with user friendly views and new insights into the key issues and subjects that are emerging and are of contemporary interest in the field of English Language Teaching.

This paper describes different components of adult learning relevant to teacher education program... more This paper describes different components of adult learning relevant to teacher education programmes. Since teachers are by default considered as adult learners, understanding these components is necessary to designing any successful and effective learning programs for students on a teacher training program. Designing an effective curriculum for such learners calls for a close s scrutiny of the learning variables as these learners have often been "less successful" in terms of academic pursuits.

Monsoons and Potholes" by ManukaWijesinghe is a saga that takes the reader through the first twen... more Monsoons and Potholes" by ManukaWijesinghe is a saga that takes the reader through the first twenty years of her life, struggling with growing pain analogous to Sri Lanka's turbulent politics. As the last of the trilogy, this book has been selling since the last five or six years, and begins in the 1963 and ends with the '83 riots. It is an urban book written in Sri Lankan English where the protagonist is a young girl, born in '63 who relates the political idiocies with the characteristic humor of urban irreverence and irrelevance. Thus, the book deals with the heaps and heaps of humour and the absurdity of politics taking language as a weapon. The research paper sets out to analyse the stylistic aspects in terms of language devices used by Wijesinghe comparing with that of other Sri Lankan novels such as Giraya and FunnyBoy. This paper as in a descriptive analytical method will analyse the language used by the characters in relation with the linguistic nationalism as one of its main themes. The paper will also focus on the characteristic variation of the novel in the light of its language and space.

According to Sri Lankan education system, English is taught from grade one to grade thirteen as a... more According to Sri Lankan education system, English is taught from grade one to grade thirteen as a compulsory subject. However the competency level of English is declining in the areas that confronted the conflict especially in Jaffna district. If these problems to be resolved first the challenges that the children encounter should be identified. And this research attempts to recognize the causes that forbid a child from getting a peaceful language learning environment. The predicament that the post conflict Jaffna children encounter are found with the plight that the children of the eighteenth century England faced during the industrial revolution through William Blake's poems.

This article is an outcome of a mini research conducted among 15 primary teachers who are current... more This article is an outcome of a mini research conducted among 15 primary teachers who are currently teaching English at the primary level in the state funded schools in Kathmandu in Nepal. Basically, it deals with the deplorable condition of the primary teacher education in the country. The main focus of the study is on the English language teachers' thirst for their professional as well as English language development which has indeed confined to a bottle-neck situation for many reasons. The finding shows that primary English teachers are much willing to develop their language skills but their interests are frozen to death since there is no one to listen to their demands. It has been found that the pre service trainings has been of no use since the subsequent placement is a nightmare and the in service training never focuses on language development domain. Further, it was found that neither the trainers nor the supervisors assist language teachers after the training. On the whole, the training seems to be merely a formality rather than it being intended for the development of the primary level English language teachers.

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That anxiety has an influential effect on learning English language is undeniable. It has been ob... more That anxiety has an influential effect on learning English language is undeniable. It has been observed through different research activities that most of the students in English language classrooms experience anxiety that results in stuttering and fast heart beating. The wide-spread use of English language and the use of communicative language teaching have increased the demand to have a good command over English but existence of such anxiety prevent, most of the time , them from achieving the expected goal. To achieve the desired goal, the responsibility of a language teacher is deemed highly important in order to assist the learners. This qualitative study has attempted to investigate the factors that language anxiety can possibly stem from learning environment and has recommended a variety of strategies to cope with it. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews with four individuals who have been learning English for several years. Findings of the study exhibit the basic causes of English learning anxiety from the learners' perspectives as well as the effects of it. Furthermore, considering the important role of teachers in foreign language pedagogy, a need has been felt to investigate the beliefs and perceptions of language teachers about learning and teaching English. www.thedawnjournal.com 555 problems in the acquisition, retention and production of the language, which generally affects their academic results as compared to their more tension free classmates. Learners who feel anxious in their foreign language learning generally find their study less enjoyable and it pours a negative impact on their performance.