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Name :
Dr. Hemantha Sirisena |
Designation : Senior
Lecturer
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Department of Modern Languages |
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Department : Department
of Modern Languages |
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University Location
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Room Number) K2 108 |
Telephone Number
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94-112914494
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94-773685150 |
Email Address :
-- University
Email / hsirisena@kln.ac.lk
-- Other
Email / sirisena53@yahoo.com
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Administrative Experience:
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I. Permanent student advisor, (1999-2000/2005-2008)
II. Sub-warden, 1996 / 2000
III. Student counselor 1998 / 1999,
2005-2008
IV. Treasurer, Kelaniya
University Teachers’ Association –Welfare
Fund.1998 -2000.
VI. Academic
warden 2004 / 2005, 2005 / 2006, 2006 / 2007
VII. Academic counselor-career
guidance unit 2005 / 2006, 2006 / 2007
VIII.
Senior Student counselor Faculty of Humanities 2005
/ 2006, 2006 / 2007
IX. Co-ordinator
– Programme on Facilitating Access for Staff/Students
with Special Needs 2007
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Head Department of Modern Languages
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President, Kelaniya University Teachers’ Association
–Welfare Fund 2006-upto date
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Educational Qualifications:
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B.A.
(Honors) in Russian First class. University of Kelaniya,
Sri Lanka 1975-1979.
Post Graduate Diploma in Education. University Colombo
1996-1997.
M.A. in Philology, Second Class. University of Leningrad,
U.S.S.R. 1982-1984.
PhD. in Linguistics. University of Saint Petersburg,
Russia. 2000-2003.
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Teaching :
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Russian
Language and Literature
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Research Interests :
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Acoustic
analysis of speech sound
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Current Research Activities
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Engaged
in developing automatic computer software to convert
voice file into text file and vice versa
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Special Training:
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Acoustic
analysis of speech sound using computer software
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Research and Publications:
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I.
Adjectives Denoting Colours in Sergei Yesenin
Poems. (M.A. Thesis) 1984.
II.
Reading Habits of Teachers in Secondary Schools
of Sri Lanka.1995.
III.
Sound properties of sound system of the Sinhala
Language as a basis for automatic transcriber..
(PhD. Thesis) 2003
IV. Horakanwelage S:Acoustic
characteristics of vowels in the Sinhalese language.
(Separately pronounced vowels) // XXXII International
Philological Conference. Issue No 22 : Section
of phonetics and methods of teaching foreign languages
.Part 2. St Petersburg .: Faculty of Philology.
St.Petersburg State University, 2003. pp. 3 - 20.
V.
Horakanwelage S. Vocalism of the Sinhalese language
. // Language and Speech Activity. Vol.5. St
Petersburg. St. Petersburg State University, 2003.pp.
100 - 120.
VI. Horakanwelage S: The vocal
system of Sinhalese language. // Research work at
a classical university, Scientific conference
of the Ivanovo State University, Ivanovo, 2003.
pp. 282 - 283.
VII. Horakanwelage S:The Research
of the duration of vowels of separately pronounced
words in Sinhalese language. The experimental phonetic
analysis of speech: problems and methods. Issue
No 5. Phonetic Diversity of languages of the world.
Publication: Faculty of Philology, St. Petersburg
State University, Russia. 2004. pp. 168-183.
VIII. Sirisena.H: Duration
of Sinhalese vowels pronounced separately and in
words. Annual Research Symposium 2004, Abstract
of Presentations. Faculty of Graduate Studies, University
of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. pp.8
IX. Sirisena.H: The Spectral
Analyses of Sinhalese Vowels. 10TH International
Conference on Sri Lankan Studies “Sri
Lanka After Five Hundred Years of Western Colonization
and Future Perspectives” 16th-18th December
2005 University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya Sri Lanka.
Abstracts. pp.105
X. K. H. Kumara, N. G. J. Dias
and H. Sirisena:A tool for automatic segmentation
of a given Sinhala text into Syllables for Speech
synthesis and Speech recognition, Proceedings
of the Annual Research Symposium 2006, FGS - University
of Kelaniya.
XI. K.H.Kumara, N.G.J.Dias
and H.Sirisena: Automatic Segmentation of given
set of Sinhala text into Syllables for Speech Synthesis,
Journal of Science (Vol 3), University of Kelaniya,
Sri Lanka, 2007.
XII.
A Visual Management System for Universities, A case
Study of the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka 7th
Annual Research Symposium – University of
Kelaniya 2006, 8th December 2006
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Books: |
I.
Educational Aims, Objectives and Policies in
Sri Lanka (From pre-historic era to 1998) Published
in 1999.
II. Introduction
to Spoken Russian 2006, Author Publication
III.  Introductory
phonetic and lexical course in Russian Language.
CBT (A computer based teaching material in CD mode)
2006, Author Publication
IV.
The Duration of Sinhala Vowels 2007, Author
Publication
V. Russian-Sinhala
Dictionary (in Press)
VI.
Spectral Analysis of Sinhala Vowels 2007,
Author Publication
VII. Introduction
to Russian language 2007, Author Publication
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Indices - Visual Management
System, University
of Kelaniya, 2008 |
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Database, Location and Assets,
University
of Kelaniya, 2008 |
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Site Map and Nomenclature -
Visual Management System, University
of Kelaniya, 2008 |
A Visual Management System
for Universities, A case Study of the University
of Kelaniya,
--Sri Lanka 7th
Annual Research Symposium - University of Kelaniya
2006, 8th December 2006 |
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Department of Modern Languages, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
Phone : +94-0112903721, +94-0112903720---Fax : +94-0112914494 |
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