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Sinhala and Tamil influence on Sri Lankan English particle use: A corpus-based study on the case of ‘for
(2017)Colonial expansion brought English into contact with different languages. In Sri Lanka, English has been in contact with Sinhala and Tamil for over 200 years. Today, all users of Sri Lankan English (SLE) are either bilingual ... -
A Small-Scale Genre Analysis Study of the Introductions of a Corpus of Postgraduate Essays in the Field of Applied Linguistics
(2017)Most English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses focus on developing general academic writing skills. Swales (1990) argues that prominence should be given not only to the general writing skills but also to discipline related ... -
University learners’ performance in using the definite article in definite contexts versus the indefinite article in indefinite contexts.
(2017)Interlanguage errors have long been a field of interest for a number of studies over the years. Errors in article usage, a kind of interlanguage errors are a persistent problem that teachers of English as a second/foreign ... -
The Use of First Language in Teaching Second Language Vocabulary to Sri Lankan Undergraduates.
(2017)Abstract- English has become the “Global language” (Crystal, 2003) and is taught as the second language in most of the countries around the world. In Sri Lanka too, there is a considerable demand for English Language ...