Mohamed Navaz Abdul Majeed- PhD
- Professor at South Eastern University of Sri Lanka
Mohamed Navaz Abdul Majeed
- PhD
- Professor at South Eastern University of Sri Lanka
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This paper focuses on the education system of Sri Lanka in the post-colonial and contemporary periods with a focus on English education. This review briefly explains how the changes were made by colonial rulers to introduce English education into the tiny island and how the local rulers attempted to diminish the importance of English education in t...
The recently commenced TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) degree programme at the South Eastern University of Sri Lanka has attracted students in the Humanities faculty towards the course. When students are enrolled for the course, they find it difficult to successfully cope with the course because of the writing difficulties which are us...
Interaction, especially dialogic interaction in EMI classes, is considered important for understanding the content and developing the language. Although the importance of dialogic interaction is well realized, the studies that focused on interaction in tertiary level EMI classes are rare in Sri Lanka, while they are limited in number in Asia. Moreo...
Online language learning has become a household term after the Covid-19 pandemic which has played havoc all over the world. To avoid disruptions in educational activities, the education providers, mainly at the tertiary level, switched to virtual learning using different platforms. This study investigates the strengths and weaknesses of online lang...
This study examines the possibility of using of IRF (Initiation-Response-Follow-up) sequence of teacher-student interaction in Sri Lankan ESL (English as a Second Language) classes for developing longer interactional exchanges which are believed to be useful for language development. Usually, in Sri Lankan ESL classes, teachers ask more display que...
Introduction of English Medium Instruction (EMI) is linked to language development, mainly in countries where English is not the mother tongue of the majority of the population. It is believed that teacher questions that trigger teacher-student interaction, especially dialogic interaction in an EMI classroom, can help students’ content and language...
This study focuses on developing a framework to identify dialogic interaction in English-medium science lectures in a small faculty of a Sri Lankan university. In Sri Lanka, English-medium instruction was introduced with an objective of developing language proficiency of students along with the content delivery. It is asserted that teacher-student...
Ragging is a form of teasing introduced into Sri Lankan universities with an alleged aim of assimilating new students to the university culture. The origin of ragging is not known and over the years ragging has become a form of violent action and bullying, which harms junior students physically as well as mentally. It is generally accepted that cla...
Teaching grammar has been a concern for teachers for the reasons that grammar is an important area in language learning and also is considered a difficult skill to handle in ESL classrooms. The objective of the study is to identify the methods of teaching English grammar at a university and two selected schools. For this purpose, fourteen teachers...
As a follow-up of a previous study that investigated the inflectional errors made by the
students in the Faculty of Arts & Culture (FAC) of the South Eastern University of Sri
Lanka (Navaz and Sama, 2016), this paper examines further as to how the students use
irregular inflectional morphemes in writing, especially plural nouns and verbs. Writing
h...
In the Sri Lankan context, long after the introduction of the Communicative Approach to
language teaching, the tendency is to base the teaching of English on the teaching of
grammar. Unarguably, grammar is an important component of language. However,
there are many issues in relation to teaching and learning of it. Teachers adopt different
methods...
Introduced in colonial period in Sri Lanka, English language is taught to students from Grade 3 to Advanced Level at schools. Despite the heavy expenditure and efforts taken by the government, the outcome of teaching English language has not been satisfactory as revealed in the public examinations. In contrast, the teaching of English literature at...
This study was undertaken as an action research to find the types of errors the weak students at the South Eastern University of Sri Lanka make in their writing. 30 students were involved in the study. In order to identify students’ errors, they were given a baseline test with two writing tasks to complete. The wrong usage of tenses was the most pr...
Like other developing countries, Sri Lanka too introduced English Medium Instruction (EMI) at tertiary level undergraduate courses with a view of enhancing the English proficiency of the students. The assumption behind this introduction was that when the students were given opportunities for being exposed to plenty of input in a second language (SL...
This paper investigates the inflectional morpheme errors made by the students in the Faculty of Arts & Culture (FAC) of the South Eastern University of Sri Lanka. Writing has been a difficult skill to master for the undergraduates irrespective of their faculties. Since, writing is being regularly tested as part of the end-semester examinations for...
This study looks into the challenges faced by the students in English Medium undergraduate classes of a Sri Lankan university where English is taught as a Second Language. Though theoretically EMI was introduced with a view to enhancing the English proficiency of the students, the desired outcome has been a question. Students at tertiary level EMI...
Student Centred Learning, a prominent term in educational arena in Europe and the West is gaining popularity in Asia including Sri Lanka, especially in the higher education sector. Even though a lot of discussions, workshops and training programmes are conducted through several projects on this concept, there is no evidence for it being adopted by...
This paper, which is a part of a thesis, investigates the perception and practice of lecturers and students with regard to lecturer-student interaction in English medium science lectures of a university in Sri Lanka where English is a second language. This paper argues that dialogic lecturer-student interaction, which enables students to take a mor...
This study arises from two contextualised problems faced by the students at the Faculty of Applied Sciences (FAS) of a small university in Sri Lanka. These problems are: students’ lecture comprehension difficulties and limited oral language proficiency in their second language (i.e. English). The ideas developed in this study are based on the argum...
