Department of English Language Teaching: Recent submissions

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Learning to Use English Prepositions: Structural Implications for the Tamil Students

Jeyaseelan, G. (The Open University of Sri Lanka, 2024)

The mastery of English prepositions poses a significant challenge for Tamil-speaking ESL students in Sri Lanka, attributable to profound morpho-syntactic structural differences between English and Tamil. English prepositions, ...
Making Sense of ‘Democracy’: Constructing Ideological and Attitudinal Positions in Media Discourse on Conflict and International Intervention in Sri Lanka.

Jeyaseelan, G. (The Centre for Contemporary Theory, Baroda in collaboration with the Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, 2008)

This paper studies the media construction of ‘democracy’ in commenting on policies, nations, communities, parties, organizations and individuals in the background of the conflict and international intervention in Sri Lanka ...
The Thematic Diversity Reference Model for English Essay Writing and Assessment in Humanities & Social Sciences

Jeyaseelan, G.; Subajana, J. (University of Waterloo, Canada, 2022)

he learners at the tertiary level show inadequacy in thematic diversity in their essay writing in English, especially in non-English speaking countries. Their effectiveness in developing the assigned topic in dissatisfaction. ...
Ethnic Conflict, Peace and Development in the Editorials of the Sri Lankan English Newspapers - A Media Discourse Analysis

Jeyaseelan, G. (Eastern University of Sri Lanka, 2010)

Discourse constitutes power in constructing ideational, textual and interpersonal constructs which are ideological. It can transmit and even legitimize power in society. In the post-conflict development scenario, the editors ...
Promoting Dairy Industry after the War: a case study of the SEED project in the Vavuniya District.

Jeyaseelan, G.; Mangaleswaran, T. (Royal Asiatic Society of SriLanka ICSLS, 2010)

This paper investigates the performance of the community based project which was started in 2007 and implemented by the Social Economical and Environmental Developers (SEED) mainly in the areas of Sekkadipulavu and ...
Ethnic Conflict and International Relations: an analysis of Metaphorical Construction of the Sri Lankan English Newspaper Editorials.

Jeyaseelan, G. (The Open University of Sri Lanka, 2011)

This study examines the metaphorical construction of ethnic conflict and international relations in Sri Lankan English newspaper editorials published during the ceasefire period between the Government of Sri Lanka and the ...
The Use of Prepositions in Business Letter Writing in English: an Applied Linguistic Analytical Approach to Language Learning.

Jeyaseelan, G. (The Department of English, University of Kelaniya, 2013)

Sri Lanka needs more applied linguistic research on the appropriate or acceptable use of language structures in English or in business English writing based on contrastive or error analytical approaches. This paper ...
The impacts of the War on the economic and human security issues of the farmers of Northern Sri Lanka in addressing Prevention of recurrence, reaching for prosperity after the War.

Jeyaseelan, G. (The Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka and the Open University of Sri Lanka, 2010)

Although much importance is given to the details of the impacts of the conflicts and of the conflicts themselves in international literature, farmers’ problems and survival strategies in a conflict situation have been ...
A Discourse Analysis of the Historical Socio-environmental perspectives of the Batticaloa region is presented in the work of F.X.C. Nadarajah.

Jeyaseelan, G.; Manobavan, M. (University of Colombo, the Sociological Association of Sri Lanka, 2009)

Batticaloa, unlike any region in Sri Lanka, is considered unique as its socio-environmental system is characterized by the complex and sensitive interface which the society has evolved with the coastal water bodies such ...
Dairy Market Trends in Vavuniya: Identifying Potentials and Challenges in A Post-Conflict Setting

Jeyaseelan, G.; Mangaleswaran, T.; Morais, N. (The Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2010)

Vavuniya is primarily an agricultural district. Milk production is an important secondary source of livelihood for the rural people. The aim of this study is to map the potentials and challenges of dairy market in Vavuniya ...
The Errors in the Use of Article in Business Letter Writing in English: A Case Study of the Business Management Students of Vavuniya Campus, Sri Lanka

Unknown author (The South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, 2013)

This paper investigates the errors in the use of articles in business letter writing in English. It is a case study of the Business Management Students of Vavuniya Campus, University of Jaffna in Sri Lanka. The study ...
Proposing thematic diversity reference model for essay writing and assessment

Jeyaseelan, G.; Subajana, J. (Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, 2023)

The tertiary level learners show inadequacy in thematic diversity in their essay writing in English, especially in non-English speaking countries. The learners’ effectiveness in developing the topic is unsatisfactory, ...
Early childhood language development: a case study of a Sri Lankan Tamil child’s progress in language acquisition

Jeyaseelan, G. (National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka, 2022)

The paper presents a case study of early childhood language development focused on a Tamil child from Sri Lanka. The research study aims to analyse the progress a Tamil child from Sri Lanka achieves in language development ...
The Historiography of the Social, Environmental, Economic and Political Systems of Pesalai, A Village in the Mannar District, Sri Lanka: A Content Analysis

Jeyaseelan, G. (Open University of Sri Lanka, 2023)

Historiography reveals many visible and latent facts and opinions about how the history of communities and regions and the evolution of their social, environmental, economic, and political systems (SEEPS) are constructed ...
English Functions and Ideologies in Newspaper Editorials

Jeyaseelan, G. (Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, University of Ruhuna, 2022)

Language functions empower media in 'knowledge management.' It reveals the media construction of policies, nations, peoples, communities, and individuals. Scholars have developed critical discourse analytical tools for ...
Synthesizing the historiographical aspects found in literature for building a descriptive model of the man-nature interfaces in post-colonial Batticaloa: A discourse analytic approach

Jeyaseelan, G.; Manobavan, M. (The Department of Geography of the University of Ruhunu, 2010)

Physical geographers, when trying to understand the interfaces between natural .resource bases and the human society in any given geographical area need to understand how the system has evolved during the course of its ...
English Language Performance and reaching profession - A Case study of the Conflict-affected Vavuniya District of sri Lanka

Jeyaseelan, G. (English Language Performance and reaching profession - A Case study of the Conflict-affected Vavuniya District of sri Lanka, 2011)

The English Language Teaching, especially in the war-torn North of Sri Lanka where the English Language Teaching (ELT) profession on its decline in the context of the politico-military instability in the past in that region, ...
Reconciliation between Tamils and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka: Propaganda in Media Discourse

Jeyaseelan, G. (Department of Tamil, Presidency College, Affiliated to University of Madras, Chennai, 2013)

This paper applies the ‘propaganda model’ of media operations developed by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky in Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media to the Sri Lankan Media’s discourse construction. ...
The 'Translocal' Nationalism of the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora: A Reading of Selected Short Stories of V.N. Giridharan

Jeyaseelan, G. (Department of Tamil, Presidency College, Affiliated to University of Madras, Chennai, 2012)

The Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora has a strong presence now in North America, Europe, etc; The ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka necessitated migration since the mid 1980s. Like many modern diasporic communities, the Sri Lankan ...
Tracing Cultural Nationalism in Traditional Homeland-based Solution to the Sri Lankan Ethnic Conflict- a Discourse Analysis Approach to the Represented Media Texts.

Jeyaseelan, G. (The Centre for Contemporary Theory, Baroda in collaboration with the Dept. of English of Goa University, 2007)

The ethnic conflict, which has claimed the lives of more than 70,000 people, is an ongoing intensive, political as well as military conflict on the island-nation of Sri Lanka since 1983. It is predominantly between the ...

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