Online Language Learning for Sinhala and Tamil
Learning English Online - "English for ICT"
With the increasing demand for the employees who are fluent in English in both public and corporate sectors, the government has felt the necessity of empowering its community with English knowledge. Accordingly, year 2009 has been declared the year of English and ICT.
English for ICT which is a compulsory component in the Foundation in Information Technology (FIT) program, and which is available online through a Learning Management System (LMS), is a course meant to fulfill this objective by providing the necessary language skills for those who wish to proceed in higher education, and engage themselves in the field of Information & Communication Technology. FIT program is a bridging course primarily aimed as a qualification to register for the Bachelor of Information Technology (BIT) program conducted by the University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) and is delivered using distance learning technologies, via an on line environment. Read More...
Learning Tamil in Sinhala
Language is a very powerful tool for mutual understanding between people. The lack of knowledge in another language on the other hand has been the cause of many a misunderstandings.
Sri Lanka is a country with multi-ethnic, multilingual, multi-script environment. In such environment, learning several languages is advantageous and essential for the entire community. Considering these and other facts, we mainly focused our research on developing a Computer Aided Language Learning (CALL) tool for learning Sinhala in Tamil. Read More...
Learning Sinhala in English
The main objective of this project is to develop effective training materials and a methodology to make learning another language less arduous. The framework “Shikshaka” developed is expected to be flexible enough to extend itself to be used by other project partners to teach their languages. For example, this software needs to be content independent and customizable. Contents can be added and updated easily. This tool is also need to have the following features: user friendliness, platform independence and localizability. Read More...