http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/3489 Wed, 07 Jan 2026 05:57:14 GMT 2026-01-07T05:57:14Z http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/4685 Volitivity and Subject Case Marking in Sinhala Chou, Chao-Ting; Hettiarachchi, S. Pdf is attached. Fri, 27 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/4685 2015-03-27T00:00:00Z http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/3842 Political Death and Neo-racism: Styles in Sizwe Bansi is Dead Jayathilake,Chitra In his lectures in 1975-1976, Michel Foucault conceptualised the inclination to commit murders in political circumstances, and delineated it as ‘political death’ (2003).1 Such killings encompass both corporeal and psychological execution exercised through diverse means, for instance, murder, manslaughter, genocide, social ostracism and exposure to deadly environments. Apparently, today political death is implemented either through implicit biopolitical stratagems or overt violence by those who are already in power or those who attempt to gain power, and is prompted through phenomena such as racism, patriotism and xenophobia. This paper aims to examine ‘political death’ prompted by racism, and interrogates the ways and means by which these murders are actualised and rationalised, but ultimately rendered invisible in society, as represented in Athol Fugard’s Anglophone play-text, Sizwe Bansi is Dead (1972). Set against the backdrop of the apartheid epoch, Fugard’s play focuses on the regulation and coercion of black populations by Afrikaner rulers in postcolonial South Africa. By analysing the play through Frantz Fanon’s, Foucault’s and Achille Mbembe’s lenses on biopolitics and racism, I argue that the concept of political death offers perspectives on biopolitical frameworks that foreground non-normative killings; dis- embodied deaths. The discussion creates a space to reflect meaningfully and critically on ‘living-dead’ conditions encountered by many populations today. Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/3842 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/3839 English Language Teacher Motivation in Sri Lankan Public Schools Hettiarachchi,Sujeewa Drawing on in-depth qualitative data from fifty-four surveys and five interviews, this study investigated aspects of motivation and demotivation among Sri Lankan English language teachers, The participants included a convenience sample of English teachers currently employed in public schools, The results of the study revealed that students themselves, the act of teaching students, and the prestigious social position for English teachers in Sri Lanka are main motivators for teachers. The main demotivators for the participants included limited facilities for teaching and learning in schools, inefficiency of school administration and zonal education offices, difficulties in obtaining teacher transfers, the discrepancy between the English curriculum and students' English proficiency, and the poor relationship between colleagues. Overall results of the study indicate that teacher demotivation is a significant issue in Sri Lankan public schools which needs the immediate attention of the country's education policy designers and management. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/3839 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/3838 L2 Acquisition of Wh-Features and Syntactic Constraints: Evidence for Full-Access Approaches Hettiarachchi, S.; Pires, Acrisio L2 Acquisition of Wh-Features and Syntactic Constraints: Evidence for Full-Access Approaches This paper investigates the L2 acquisition of wh-features and relevant constraints (Superiority and Subjacency) by Sinhala-English bilinguals in Sri Lanka. Using results from a Truth Value Judgment Task (TVT) and a scalar Grammaticality Judgment Task (GT), it is argued that advanced adult L2 speakers 0f English successfully acquire the un interpretable wh-Q feature and relevant constraints in the target language despite their non-instantiation in overt syntax in Ll-Sinhala. The results are consistent with other recent studies which report the successful adult L2 acquisition of new functional features in different grammatical domains (e.g., Campos-Dintrans, Pires & Rothman 2014; Foucart & Frenck-Mestre 2012). The results also support Full Access to UG principles and constraints in adult L2 syntax (White 2003), contra predictions or Representational Deficit Accounts in adult L2 acquisition (e.g., Hawkins & Hattori 2006; Tsimpli & Dimitrakopoulou 2007). Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/3838 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z