- Manual to the Sri Lanka English Newspaper Corpus (SLENC)
- Sri Lankan Newspaper Corpus 2015 compiled by H.C. Keshala
Sri Lankan English Newspaper corpus – 2015 is a web- derived newspaper corpus of 2-million words compiled by Hediwaththege Chathuri Keshala in 2015. The corpus was initially compiled by Keshala for personal use in a corpus based research project that she conducted as a part of her thesis for a Master of Arts in English Studies, Department of English, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
The Sri Lankan English Newspaper corpus – 2015 includes texts extracted from two Sri Lankan newspapers, Daily News and Daily Mirror published in 2015. 1 million words from each newspaper is included in this corpus totalling 3 million words.
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This corpus contains approximately 2250 articles from five registers of the newspaper genre published between 2004 to 2006. The five registers are lead stories (top news stories), editorials, features, letters to the editor, and sports.
The Department of English offers ENG 2232- English Across the World as a diverse and timely course unit that explores the interesting transformations happening around the use of English on a global scale.
As Padlet has become a favorite platform and digital tool for collaborative digital learning, the students worked on developing padlets to analyze different varieties of Englishes around the world.
The final result of this crowd-sourced activity is a digitized set of data that is interactive and proof of how language learning evolves in the digital age.
This lab session was designed as a pedagogical task to supplement the course unit, ENG 2219/ ENG 2223: The Novel in the 18th and 19th Centuries. The objective of this session was to familiarise the students with the interconnectedness of space, mobility and bodies in Thomas Hardy’s novel Jude the Obscure. The lab session permitted the students to reimagine these aspects of the novel in relation to cartography and produce maps that traced these concerns using a digital mapmaking platform.