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Dr. DANSY Dassanayake

Senior Lecturer

Social Sciences and Languages

Email : noel@ssl.sab.ac.lk

    Qualifications

  • PhD Jinan University, China

    Master of Arts in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, 2016

    Bachelor of Arts ( Honours ) Chinese, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2010

    CTHE - Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2015

    Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language -  Chongqing Normal University - 2014

    Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language - Honghe University -  2016

    Profile

  • D A N S Y Dassanayake is a Senior Lecturer in Chinese in the Department of Languages of Sabaragamuwa Uniuversity of Sri Lanka. Having undergone Teacher Training in China he has served as a member of the Curriculum Revision Committee for Advanced Level Chinese Language for National Institute of Education. He has also extended his services to Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation, Uva Wellassa University and various other institutions in translation, syllabus revision and etc. assignments. His research and other publication interests include Pedagogy of TCFL, Chinese Linguistics, Chinese history and philosophy.

    Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations

  • Current Institution

    2013 to present - Lecturer : Department of Languages, Faculty of Social Sciences and Languages, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka

    2013 - 2014 - Coordinator – Ethnic Cohesion /HETC Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka

    2015 -2016 - Coordinator - BA Degree Programme/CODL Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka

    2013 to present - Coordinator, Chinese Language, Department of Languages, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka

    Other Affiliations

    2013 - Translator , Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation ; Holy Pearl Mayawarunge Lokaya

    2015 - Member , Committee for Preparation of Syllabus and Teachers Guide Grade 11 Chinese Language- National Institute of Education

    2015 -  Member, Committee for syllabus revision for Grade 11 Chinese syllabus - National Institute of Education, Maharagama

    2016  - Member, Committee for syllabus revision for Grade 12,13 Chinese syllabus - National Institute of Education, Maharagama

    2016-2017 Member,Committee for Preperation of Teachers Guide for Grade 12,13 Chinese syllabus - National Institute of Education, Maharagama

    2016 - Translator , Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation ; Journey to the West Mahaa Vaanara

    Research Interests

  • Pedagogy of TCFL ( Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) 

    Chinese Linguistics

    Chinese history and philosophy

    Current Research Projects

  • Practical Chinese Conversation - 使用汉语会话 : A comprehensive book for intermediate Chinese learners to master conversation. This is a collaborative project done with Professor. Cheng Cailanin Foreign Language Department of Huanggang Normal University, China

    Recent Publications

  • Books

    Dassanayake, N. (2015). චීන බසට අත්වැලක්  (First Edtition). Colombo: Gunasena .

    Dassanayake, N (2018). Practical Chinese Conversation (First Edition).Colombo: Sarasavi.

    Dassanayake, N (2018). Chinese Composition, Culture and Literature- Chinese - GCE Advanced Level New Syllabus, Vijitha Yapa

    Research 

    Dassanayake, N. (2017). Production of Initials by Mandarin Learners: L1 and L2 clogging. ICSUSL2017. Kandy

    Dassanayake, N (2017) Synchronicity of Confucianism and Buddhism in Journey to the West, Ruhuna University International Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences 2017

    Dassanayake, N (2018)බටහිර තරණය කෘතිය තුළින් චීන සාම්ප්‍රදායික දර්ශනවාද නිරූපණය කෙරෙන ආකාරය පිළිබඳ අධ්‍යනයක්, සබරගමුව විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයීය ශාස්ත්‍රීය සංග්‍රහය නවවැනි කලාපය - 2018 දෙසැම්බර්