{"id":464,"date":"2017-08-30T11:45:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T06:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/eltu\/?p=464"},"modified":"2018-12-10T10:57:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T05:27:11","slug":"research-symposium-on-english-language-studies-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/delt\/research-symposium-on-english-language-studies-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"International Research Symposium on English Language  Studies &#8211; 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>International Research Symposium on English Language Studies \u2013 2017<\/strong><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>English as a Second Language: Knowledge, Learning and Production<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Symposium Dates: 28th and 29th September 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Venue: University of Colombo<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the rise of English as a global lingua franca, the field of second language studies has become enriched with innovative, reflective and rigorous research aimed at evaluating and challenging the existing theory and practice of second language teaching. In order to provide a forum for such research conducted both locally and internationally to be presented and discussed, the English Language Teaching Unit of the University of Colombo\u00a0organized its second international symposium on language studies.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-464 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a 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href=\"http:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/eltu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/inauguration.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-557 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/eltu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/inauguration.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/delt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/inauguration.jpg 596w, https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/delt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/inauguration-250x198.jpg 250w, https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/delt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/inauguration-125x99.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/eltu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day-1.pdf\">Programme &#8211; Day 1 (<strong>28<sup>th<\/sup> September 2017)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/eltu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Day-2.pdf\">Programme &#8211; Day 2 (<strong>29<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0September 2017)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/eltu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IRSELS-2017-725x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-508\" src=\"http:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/eltu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IRSELS-2017-725x1024-680x960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"777\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/delt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IRSELS-2017-725x1024-680x960.jpg 680w, https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/delt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IRSELS-2017-725x1024-250x353.jpg 250w, https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/delt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IRSELS-2017-725x1024-125x177.jpg 125w, https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/delt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IRSELS-2017-725x1024.jpg 725w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Plenary speaker : \u00a0<strong>Professor Paul Gunashekar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-84\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/eltu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/PG-Scan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"149\" \/><strong>Professor Paul Gunashekar<\/strong> has been teaching English, training teachers of English, and developing instructional materials for English Language Teaching for over forty-three years. Educated in Bangalore and London, he is a professor in the Department of Materials Development, Testing and Evaluation at the English and Foreign Languages University (formerly CIEFL), Hyderabad, India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Professor Gunashekar has authored, co-authored and edited over two hundred English teaching books \u2013including course books, workbooks, supplementary and literature readers, teacher\u2019s books, and reading cards\u2013for national and state agencies.\u00a0 Co-author of <em>Communicate in English<\/em>; <em>New<\/em> <em>Learning to Communicate for the Middle School<\/em>; <em>Provocations: a Reading Course for Colleges<\/em>; and <em>Writing for Life<\/em>, he is the General Editor of <em>New Wave English Readers<\/em>; and the Series Editor of <em>New Broadway: A Multi-skill Course in English<\/em>, and <em>Skyline: An Integrated Course in English<\/em>, all of which have been published by Oxford University Press India.\u00a0 In addition, he has developed audio materials for schools and video programmes for colleges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Professor Gunashekar has conducted over a thousand teacher training workshops in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, UAE, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Tanzania. He has also conducted courses in business communication, communication skills, report writing, public speaking, and presentation skills for corporate houses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Professor Gunashekar specializes in course design, teacher development, and English for Specific Purposes. He is the editor of the EFLU research journal <em>Languaging<\/em>, and the Indian English consultant to the Oxford Advanced Learner\u2019s Dictionary and the Oxford English Dict<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Research Symposium on English Language Studies \u2013 2017 English as a Second Language: Knowledge, Learning and Production Symposium Dates: 28th and 29th September 2017 Venue: University of Colombo With the rise of English as a global lingua franca, the field of second language studies has become enriched with innovative, reflective and rigorous research aimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/delt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/delt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/delt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/delt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/delt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/delt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/delt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/delt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/delt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/delt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/delt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}