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New article name goes here new article content ... Bilingual Education in Sri Lanka Application of bilingual education does not have novelty at all in the Sri Lankan education: this has its epistemological evidence in the country commencing from pre colonial era upto the present (beginning from 2001) covering four eras including late colonial era of the British and the postcolonial Kanangara Reforms. Today bilingual education, with its popular methodology called Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), has become the norm in practice and monolingual education in any powerful language has been identified as an exception. When defining bilingual education, it is possible to find a large number of definitions depending on the purposes of selecting it in a particular society. Any bilingual education programme is expected to have its own curriculum in which the prescribed content of the recommended subjects are delivered using minimum two languages as media of instruction. This is processed selecting either subjects of a certain stage of education simultaneously or bridging two stages of education consecutively. Bilingual education in Sri Lankan general education system can be found after primary education which is totally available in either Sinhala or Tamil, and then introducing several subjects to be learnt in English parallel to the rest (the majority) in Sinhala or Tamil. The linguistic outcomes expected in a bilingual education programme decide suitable educational goals combining language in and across its curriculum. These decisions are based on politics of languages in a country combined with other developmental aspects. Sri Lankan bilingual Education is focused on additive purposes, and therefore balanced bilingualism cum functional bilingualism parallel to balanced biliteracy have been identified as long term linguistic goals. The suitable mode for accessing these linguistic targets is developmental cum two-way bilingual education. Teachers’ role in bilingual education is dual performing primarily the role of subject teacher and then the same of the teacher of language. The number of subjects prescribed from Grade 6-11 in Sri Lankan bilingual education is, according to the circulars of the Ministry of Education, six (science, mathematics, health and physical education, geography, life competencies and civic education and ICT though the last may not be wise to be offered so). In addition, learners find the opportunity to learn Western Music and English Literature in English in addition to some of the languages studied under the optional subject, foreign languages. There is another six subjects introduced in GCE (A/L), too. The current practice of allowing students to study more than three subjects and all the subjects of GCE (A/L) in English are also not a suitable practice as the academic surrounding created for the learner in such a condition is cognitively hectic and undesirable.

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