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ESL Teachers’ Perceptions on Shifting from a Deductive to an Inductive Approach: Enhancing Communicative Competence in Sri Lankan Classrooms.

Kumara, P.G.S.R. (University of Jaffna, 2025)

In recent years, the global focus in second language instruction has shifted from grammar-based accuracy to real-world communication skills. This transition is especially relevant in Sri Lankan ESL classrooms where ...

The Influence of Institutional Factors on Willingness to Communicate in English as a Second Language (ESL): A Study of Sri Lankan English Medium Students.

Wannakukorala, I.J. (University of Jaffna, 2025)

Effective communication in a second language is essential for language acquisition. Communicative competence in relation to the target language is a crucial factor contributing to success; learners must not only ...

The Role of Plurilingual Representations in Promoting Cultural Inclusivity: A Content Analysis Based on the Sri Lankan English as a Second Language Textbooks and Teacher Perceptions

Shehani Dissanayake, S.A.D.I. (University of Jaffna, 2025)

Plurilingualism and cultural inclusivity are two distinct yet, deeply interconnected concepts that emphasize the dynamic and holistic nature of linguistic and cultural diversity. Plurilingual content, which emphasizes ...

English Learnability of Slum Children in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Sultana, N.; Fatima, N.C. (University of Jaffna, 2025)

English Language Teaching (ELT) in the post-colonial era has gone through a process of decolonization. Kumaravadivelu (2003) defines decolonization as a complex process of taking control of the principles and practices ...

Exploring ESL Teachers’ Perspectives on Localizing English Education: Challenges and Opportunities in Integrating Local Culture into Language Teaching

Dissanayake, B.Y. (University of Jaffna, 2025)

The localization of English language education has emerged as a significant pedagogical approach aimed at making language learning more culturally relevant and engaging for students. However, English as a Second ...

Decolonizing English through Open Book Quizzes: Learner Perspectives of Trincomalee Campus

Savarimuttu, J.S.R.; Fernando, D.T.N.; Jayasundara, N.S.; Supun, M.K. (University of Jaffna, 2025)

English has become a denationalized language which no longer is a property of the tiny island England. Even though English education has been implemented through Macaulay’s ideology of creating a class to stand-in between ...

A Critical Analysis of the 2018 GCE Ordinary Level English Language Paper in Sri Lanka

Jayaweera, C. (University of Jaffna, 2025)

Language tests are administered worldwide, and their pros and cons can be identified from both the test takers and designers. A good language test should be practical, comprehensive, relevant, and balanced, with a ...

Impact of Hypermedia-based Poetries Composed by Poetess, Anne Ranasinghe on Adjective Development

Nowzath, M.B. (University of Jaffna, 2025)

Hypermedia-based Ranasinghe’s poetry refers to facilitate poems with graphs, images, animation, sound and hypertext with tactics exhibits the success of the students. This study was steered to recognize the output of ...

Localising English Teaching: A Cross-cultural Analysis of Code-switching Dynamics in Multilingual India

Vijay, S. (University of Jaffna, 2025)

In linguistically diverse countries like India, code-switching is not merely an exception but a fundamental communicative practice that shapes everyday interactions. This study examines the interplay between regional ...

Embracing the Mess: Decolonizing English Language Teaching through Plurilingual Realities

Cogo, A. (University of Jaffna, 2025)

In this talk I explore the productive messiness of language and cultural understanding in English language teaching, drawing on Global Englishes and decolonial research. I will challenge the dominance of Anglophone ...

Negotiating National Languages, English as a World Language, and Individual Multilingualism in the Global South

May, S. (University of Jaffna, 2025)

In this keynote presentation, I will explore the often-fraught tensions in language policy in the global South in relation to the dominance of national languages and a related emphasis on public monolingualism, the ...

Rediscovering Our Heritage Linguistics

Suresh, C. (University of Jaffna, 2025)

In this presentation, I discuss how I experienced tensions between local and mainstream models of communication, linguistics, and teaching when I started teaching in the University of Jaffna in the mid 1980s. I introduce ...

Age Dynamics in Community Language Learning as a Decolonizing Approach: Comparing Teens and Adults in Sri Lanka

Diwakara, S. (University of Jaffna, 2025)

This study explores how Community Language Learning (CLL) as an approach can act as a decolonization method for learning English. We investigate differences in effectiveness among teenagers from 13 to 19 and adults ...

Impact of Macro-level Language Policies on Micro-level Language Practices and Ideologies of the Memons and Malays of Sri Lanka

Rassool, R. (University of Jaffna, 2025)

In Sri Lanka, there is little official acknowledgment of or discussion on the preservation of its lesser-known languages. Perhaps this is to be expected, in a country where the politics between the two major languages ...

The Impact of Socioeconomic Class and Ethnicity on English Language Teaching/Learning: A Case Study of Five Underprivileged Colombo Schools

Wijesuriya, T. (University of Jaffna, 2025)

This study examines the relationship among socioeconomic class, ethnicity and the teaching/learning of English as a second language in the Sri Lankan school system, based on a case study of GCE O/L classes in five ...

Pun Intended? A Discourse Analysis of Sinhala-English Bilingual Puns on Social Media

Wijesiriwardana, S. (University of Jaffna, 2025)

Within the postcolonial context of Sri Lanka, English plays a vital role in moulding the nation’s linguistic discourse. Sri Lankan English has been established as a variety, and its developmental trajectory can be ...

‘Teach in English or Retire’: Basic-level Teachers’ Experiences of Implementing EMI in Nepali Community School

Neupane, B. (University of Jaffna, 2025)

The medium of instruction (MOI) policy in education has become a burning issue in the multilingual classroom in Nepal. Many schools shifted to EMI after the government adopted a liberal economic policy in the 1990s. ...

Code Switching in the Language Classroom: Perceptions and Practices of Tertiary Level Teachers

Choudhury, M. (University of Jaffna, 2025)

Code switching has become a common phenomenon in L2 classrooms. Most bilingual Language teachers switch codes in the classroom. Ghaderi et al write that, “code-switching, despite the historical debate, serves various ...

Domestication and Foreignization in the Tamil Translations of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

Sutharsan, G.; Sivaji, K. (University of Jaffna, 2025)

The theory and practice of domestication and foreignization in translation have sparked extensive debate among scholars and translators especially in textual studies. This study analyses two Tamil translations by ...

Resisting Epistemic Injustice in English Studies

Dushyanthi, M. (University of Jaffna, 2025)

Colonising / colonization is not a process that is limited to the annexation of physical territory and setting up a system of government / rule. Colonisation can and does happen in research, knowledge production and ...

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