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Mailing Address Department of Modern Languages, University of Kelaniya Kelaniya, Sri Lanka

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Research Interests Sinhala - Literary and Spoken Sinhala Reference: reference tracking, reference devices, speaker, addressee and third person reference in discourse, role of socio-linguistic factors in reference Gradation: mechanisms used by native speakers to denote gradation, degrees, dimensional adjectives, positive, comparative, superlative etc. Gender and number: how gender is represented in languages; masculine, feminine, neuter, human/non-human, living beings/objects; how number is represented in languages; singular, plural, dual, interpretation of different numbers, groups, quantities Language Change & Linguistic Borrowing: English loan-words: influence of loan-words on the linguistic structure of a given language Corpus Linguistics: compiling corpora with electronic databases Contrastive Linguistics Computational Linguistics

Teaching Interests Foreign language teaching: identifying areas of difficulty in learning German as a foreign language by Sinhala native speakers, E-learning and computer based language teaching, web based technology and interactive multimedia content in language learning, blended learning and open learning Teaching of English as a Second Language to Sinhala native speakers; Intercultural communication in language teaching; ICT in Language Teaching/Learning

Publications * South Asia-related Books & Monographs (1) Ch. Premawardhena, N. (2002): Referenz-Indizes im Deutschen und im Singhalesischen: Eine kontrastive Studie, Siegen. Univerlag: (also PhD dissertation). 245 pp South Asia-related Research Papers: (2) Ch. Premawardhena, N. Integrating Computer aided learning teaching English as a second Language: A Sri Lankan experience. International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning (ICL 2009), September 2009, Villach, Austria (3) Ch. Premawardhena, N. (2008). Impact of socio-cultural aspects on language in a changing world: An analysis of Modern Sinhala In: Marion Grein (Ed.) Dialogue in and between different cultures.IADA, 53-63 ISSN 1999-5598 (4) Ch. Premawardhena, N. Integrating computer aided language learning to enhance English language skills of Sri Lankan university students, International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning (ICL 2008), September 2008, Villach, Austria. (5) Ch. Premawardhena, N. (2007). How Diplomatic Can a Language Be? The unwritten rules in a language: an analysis of Spoken Sinhala. In: Marion Grein & Edda Weigand (Eds). Dialogue and Culture, John Benjamins:Amsterdam, pp. 213-225. (6) Ch. Premawardhena, N. (2007) Integrating Literature into foreign language teaching: A Sri Lankan perspective. In: Novitas Royal. Ed. Arda Arikan. Vol.I.2., pp 92-97. ISSN 1307-4733 (7) Ch. Premawardhena, N. Web-based teaching as a performance enhancer in foreign language teaching in Sri Lanka, International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning (ICL 2007), September 2007, Villach, Austria (8) Ch. Premawardhena, N. (2006), Impact of English Loan Words in Modern Sinhala. In: Amarasinghe, S.; Fonseka, E.A.G.; Ruuskanen, D.D.K. (Eds.). Sri Lanka at Crossroads: Continuity and Change. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Sri Lankan Studies. Matara: University of Ruhuna. pp 136-146 (9) De Silva, Chandima H. / Ch. Premawardhena, N. (2006), Some Computational Aspects of Natural Language Understanding: A Case Study of Sinhala. In: Amarasinghe, S.; Fonseka, E.A.G.; Ruuskanen, D.D.K. (Eds.). Sri Lanka at Crossroads: Continuity and Change. Matara: University of Ruhuna. pp 146-155 (10) Ch. Premawardhena, N. Bilingualism in a Sri Lankan context: An analysis of Modern Sinhala and Sri Lankan English. 6th International Symposium in Bilingualism ISB06, May-June 2007, Hamburg, Germany, pp. 278-279 (11) Ch. Premawardhena, N. Socio-cultural aspects reflected in a language: an analysis of degrees of respect in Spoken Sinhala, International Symposium, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, July 2006, p 133 (12) Ch. Premawardhena, N. Linguistic borrowing in a changing world: a contrastive analysis of English loan words in Sinhala and German. International Symposium, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, July 2006, p 135 (13) Ch. Premawardhena, N. Enhancing Quality of English Teaching: Some suggestions derived from Foreign Language Teaching in Sri Lanka. Conference on Enhancing University English Language Teaching (EUE), Colombo, June 2006, p 11 (full paper in print) (14) Ch. Premawardhena, N. Lerntraditionen im Vergleich: Sri Lanka und Deutschland. 14th International Congress on Education and Information Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, February 2006, CD-ROM (15) Ch. Premawardhena, N. (2005), Pronunciation difficulties encountered by Sinhala native speakers in learning German as a foreign language. In: Journal of Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, Vol. 5. No. 1. pp 48-58 (16) Ch. Premawardhena, N.; De Silva, C.H., Sutadhara, T, Some sociolinguistic aspects of a corpus of Spoken Sinhala from the Western Province of Sri Lanka. 10th International Conference on Sri Lanka Studies, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, December 2005.p 103 (17) Ch. Premawardhena, N. Some aspects of intercultural communication in Foreign Language Teaching. 10th International Conference on Sri Lanka Studies, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, December 2005 p 185 (18) Ch. Premawardhena, N.; De Silva, C.H. Integrating ICT in Foreign Language Teaching: A Sri Lankan experience. 10th International Conference on Sri Lanka Studies, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, December 2005. p 186 (19) Ch. Premawardhena, N. DaF-Unterricht in Sri Lanka, interkulturelle Aspekte und Interferenz der Mutter- bzw. Zweitsprache. 'Symposium für Germanistik', New Delhi, October 2005 (20) Ch. Premawardhena, N. (2003), Internationalismen im Singhalesischen. In: Peter Braun/Burkhard Schaeder/Johannes Volmer (Eds.), Internationalismen-Studien zur interlingualen Lexikographie II in der "Reihe Germanistische Linguistik" Tübingen: Niemeyer. 169-182 (21) Ch. Premawardhena, N. /Sutadhara, T. / De Silva, Chandima H. Some Aspects of Representing a Corpus of Spoken Sinhala in an Electronic Database. Annual Research Symposium, University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, November 2003. p 7 (22) Rathnayaka, Dilrukshi/ Ch. Premawardhena, N. Reference Devices in Japanese. Annual Research Symposium, University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, November 2003, p 5 (23) Ch. Premawardhena, N. (2002), Reference Devices in Sinhala. In: Pronouns, Grammar and Representation, Horst J. Simon, Heike Wiese (Eds.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 63-84 (24) Ch. Premawardhena, N. Reference Tracking in German and Sinhala. Annual Sessions ofGerman Society of Linguistics (DGfS), Marburg, Germany, March 2000.

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