[lg policy] An Analytical Study on the Language Policy Practices and Social Integration of Sri Lanka:

[Harold Schiffman]

Proceedings of the Abstracts of Jaffna University International
Research Conference (JUICE-2012)

An Analytical Study on the Language Policy Practices and Social
Integration of Sri Lanka:
Case Study with Divisional Secretariat Office in Balangoda Division
W.M.N.S. Weerasekara† and E. Niroshani Department of Social Sciences,
 Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
†Nelum.sanjeewani at yahoo.com

Abstract:

All human beings are born free and have equal rights without any
discrimination. Language is one of the most important elements to
representing the national identity. Tamils are the sufficient second
major racial group in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is the country which has
comparatively a larger public sector in Asia and public sector in Sri
Lanka spreads to a wider range of sectors of the economy. After ending
the civil war in Sri Lanka, although government tries to build up the
national integration and finish the all discriminations between racial
groups introducing regulations and programs to the administrative
institutions through the ministry for national languages and social
integrity, lot of Tamils are discriminated and isolated by language
policy practices in Sri Lanka. Thus, examining the manipulation of the
language policy in public administrative institutions & its impact to
the national integration of Sri Lanka is very important. Research was
selected 100 respondents covering public servants and Tamil publics
using random sampling method. Questionnaires, interviews and key
informant were used for quantitative and qualitative data as primary
data in divisional Secretariat office in Balangoda division and
secondary data was also used.

Key findings of my research are

(i) Tamils can't be received the public service and all documents in
Tamil in administrative institutions.

(ii) Government's Tamil teaching program, is unsuccessful.
(iii) Public servants' Tamil language proficiency is very low.
 (iv) No sufficient awareness on language policy of publics.
(v) Violation of language policy rights was affected to the ethnic conflict.
(vi) Tamils have to receive third person's support to fill their
documents and give money for them.

Overly, although Sri Lankan government has implicated many language
policy circulars and programs to ensure the language rights and
national integrity, there is no successful manipulation of language
policy in administrative institutions and it has affected to the
violation the national integration of Sri Lanka.

Keywords: Human Rights, Language policy, Administrative institutions,
Tamils, Social integration

More at: http://www.jfn.ac.lk/juice2012/papers/TrackF/JUICE12-TrackF-pg136.pdf



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