Professor Dulitha Nandanie Fernando (1944-2021) was an exemplary leader exhibiting the art of true collaboration and integration through projects she involved in. She a pioneering researcher in nutrition surveys conducted among vulnerable populations Sri Lanka, which had assisted quantifying magnitude issue to take necessary policy decisions targeted interventions (1-2). has provided sound evid...

Despite consensus in focus on form (FOF) instruction over the facilitative role of noticing, controversy has not quelled over ways of directing EFL learners’ attention towards formal features via implicit techniques like input-enhancement or explicit metacognitive feedback and interactive peer-editing on the output they produce. This quasi-experimental study investigated the impact of input enh...

The perception of ensemble characteristics is often regarded as an antidote to an established bottleneck in focused attention and working memory, both of which appear to be limited in capacity to a few objects only. In order to test the associative law of summation, observers were asked to estimate the mean size of four circles relative to a reference circle. When there was no time to scrutiniz...

In the paper, we describe the process of mining real-estate listings based on decision systems over ontological graphs. Such decision systems have been proposed to deal with data in the form of concepts linked by different semantic relations. A special attention is focused on preprocessing steps transforming advertisements in the textual form into decision systems (decision tables) defined over...

Language teachers usually face issues regarding the most effective methods of teaching. Teaching language to nonnative speakers of English involves certain problems and challenges at all levels of instruction. Due to the unsatisfactory results of focus on forms and focus on meaning instructions and their inevitable inadequacies, focus on form instruction along with its multiple techniques are r...