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    Awareness And Attitudes On The Variety Of English Used In Sri Lanka Among The Undergraduates Studying In State Universities In Sri Lanka
    (Proceedings of the Undergraduate Research Symposium (HUG 2018), Department of English Language Teaching, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Abesooriya, L.
    This abstract outlines the results of a study which was carried out on the awareness and attitudes of undergraduates of state universities in Sri Lanka about the variety of English they use and the variety of English used in Sri Lanka. The study investigated students’ awareness of Sri Lankan English, the students’ awareness of the variety they use and their perspectives regarding the English they use. The study sample consisted of 119 undergraduates from different state universities. A questionnaire was distributed and online interviews were carried out for data collection. The findings showed that 32 undergraduates out of 119 claim that they use Sri Lankan English where 35 undergraduates out of 119 mentioned that they do not know the variety they are using. However, 34 undergraduates stated that they do not know that there is a variety called Sri Lankan English in Sri Lanka. According to the findings of this study, 37 undergraduates mentioned that they were presently using Sri Lankan English even though they learnt British English.
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    The Use of Directives by a Child in a Sinhala- English Bilingual Household
    (English Language Teaching Unit, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Abesooriya, L.
    There is less research recorded in the field of first language acquisition on acquisition of Sinhala as a first language in a bilingual environment. Since the languages differ from each other, it is essential to have separate studies to examine the acquisition patterns of each language. “And since languages differ, their acquisition might also be affected by the properties of each language. For example, the type of language could influence the order in which children acquire specific parts of the language and could also make some elements harder or easier to acquire.”(Clark, 2009) It is evident that there is less research on this area in the Sri Lankan context. This study covers how Sinhala bilingual middle class children use directives in a SinhalaEnglish bilingual household where English is the second language of the parents and siblings. This research is done through the study and analysis of the recordings of everyday speech of five children between two years of age to four years of age. The differences, if any, of the speech acts when these occur in the two different languages - Sinhala and English - will be presented.