http://repo.lib.sab.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/1683 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:14:08 GMT 2026-04-21T19:14:08Z http://repo.lib.sab.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/1692 SRI LANKA JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES (SLJSSH) The Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (SLJSSH) is proud to announce the publication of its inaugural issue. One of the key objectives of SLJSSH is to promote publication from different streams of research that help enrich further the discourse on Social Sciences and Humanities. The journal encourages authors to publish up-to-date, high-quality and original research papers alongside relevant and insightful reviews. As such, the journal aspires to be vibrant, engaging and accessible, and at the same time integrative and challenging. This inaugural issue owes much to many people. Especially, acknowledgement is due first to the Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development (AHEAD) Project for allocating funds under the activity five of the AHEAD/RA2/ELTAELSE/SUSL/SSL to develop collaborative research culture among the students and staff in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Languages, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka. Thanks are also due to the Editorial Board that drew up the parameters of the Journal enabling to publish scholarly work as well as to the Coordinating Editor for popularizing the Journal and accelerating the review process. Moreover, it is also acknowledged the service of the Text-Editor who has so generously given his time and expertise for editing and proof reading. Most of all, thanks must be expressed to all the reviewers for their professionalism and attention to detail which made seeing this issue into “print”, a real pleasure. On a final note, the papers that you submitted, either individually or collaboratively, are much appreciated and has made a substantial contribution to the early development and success of the journal. Best wishes and thank you in advance for your contribution to the Journal. Mon, 01 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://repo.lib.sab.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/1692 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z http://repo.lib.sab.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/1691 AUTHOR GUIDELINES Authors can submit their articles, prepared to adhere to following guidelines in soft-copies (in Microsoft Word File (.doc or .docx) electronically via email; sljossh@ssl.sab.ac.lk. Articles can be submitted at any time and the accepted articles will be published in the following issue once the entire review process is completed. The manuscript should not be submitted or considered for publication in any other journal while the same is under review for this journal. Mon, 01 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://repo.lib.sab.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/1691 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z http://repo.lib.sab.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/1690 Breaking the Shell: Labour Force Participation among Married Women by Ethnic Sub Groups in Sri Lanka Siyama, M.A.F; Samaraweera, G.R.S.R.C Gender equality in decent work and economic decision-making are still not ensured in Sri Lanka although it ensures gender parity in both education and health care. Marriage, culture, and traditional values challenge the human right of independent economic decision making among women in developing countries. The main objective of this study is to explore the ethno-specific drivers of Labor Force Participation among married women in Sri Lanka to capture deep insights into the ethno-cultural picture of the issue. Secondary data were used from the Sri Lankan Labour Force Survey 2018 including 14,533 married females and four Binary Logistic Regression models were derived for female labour force participation among ethnic subgroups. The analysis concludes that ethnicity plays a major role in the career contribution of married females in the country. Concerning married Sinhalese women, the married women representing the Sri Lankan/Indian Tamils are more probable to join in the labour market, while married women representing the Moors are less probable to participate as they are highly intertwined to traditional and cultural boundaries. Employment and occupational sector of husband, availability, and age of children, family income, age, residential sector, province, disability, vocational training, and digital literacy are the key drivers of career contribution of married women that reflect distinctive impacts on different ethnic groups. Finally, the study proposed possible policy recommendations for encouraging Female Labour Force participation by addressing the ethno-marital issues. Mon, 01 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://repo.lib.sab.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/1690 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z http://repo.lib.sab.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/1689 The Impacts of Cooperative Learning on Demoting Communication Anxiety: With Special Reference to Engineering Undergraduates Gardihewa, P. N The English language is considered the lingua franca among speakers of different languages and it is predominantly a major subject in the world education system. Communication anxiety manipulates a dominant role in restricting communication among second language learners of English (ESL). ESL learners decline to converse in English since many scholars experience language anxiety in diverse forms. The main objective of the study was to investigate whether working in groups is effective to demote communication anxiety experienced by ESL learners and the sub-objective was to examine students' perceptions of group work in mitigating speaking anxiety. Nervousness and uneasiness are considered a complex and multi-faceted mental marvel by past analysts and they have proposed the utilization of diverse points of view and approaches to examine this phenomenon. Data were collected through quantitative data collection methods. 50 questionnaires were distributed at the pre-stage and the post-stage. Cooperative learning was adopted as a teaching strategy at the post-stage. The discoveries proposed that cooperative learning made a difference in easing and decreasing the communication anxiety felt by ESL learners and empowered them to utilize the second language. At the poststage students portrayed incredible enhancements in their readiness to speak and take part in several errands and exercises in an English-speaking classroom. Through the discoveries, the analyst was able to suggest techniques to instructors that would offer assistance lighten communication anxiety felt by ESL learners by generating a difference to be less self-conscious and reinforce certainty. Mon, 01 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://repo.lib.sab.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/1689 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z