Dr Douglas Walatara (23 October 1920 - 2 February 2011) was a notable Sri Lankan Lecturer in English. He initially taught at the Sri Lankan Government Training College in Maharagama for over 20 years.[1] Following this, he was a Professor of Education at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.[2]
Dr Walatara became well known for the "Reconstruction Method" which was a bilingual method that used the student's mother tongue to teach the English language.[3] Some have claimed that this was designed mainly for the benefit of rural children who had difficulty learning English under teachers who themselves “learnt English as a foreign language and for whom English was entirely foreign”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Walatara
Dr Walatara became well known for the "Reconstruction Method" which was a bilingual method that used the student's mother tongue to teach the English language.[3] Some have claimed that this was designed mainly for the benefit of rural children who had difficulty learning English under teachers who themselves “learnt English as a foreign language and for whom English was entirely foreign”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Walatara
