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Appiah, Samuel Opoku, and Alfredo Ardila. "The question of school language in multilingual societies: the example of Ghana." RUDN Journal of Psychology and Pedagogics 17, no. 2 (2020): 263–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-1683-2020-17-2-263-272.

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The language used in school represents a crucial and polemic question in multilingual societies. Sub-Saharan Africa represents a world region with a significant linguistic diversity. Until recently, most of these countries were European colonies. During colonial times, the colonizer language generally dominated in schools. After their independence, many countries have continued using that language as the instructional language. It is observed that quite often, children are schooled in a second language, and teachers must teach in a foreign language. This situation results in potentially negati

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Orfson-Offei, Elizabeth. "Autism spectrum disorder and language choice in Ghana." Pragmatics and Society 12, no. 2 (2021): 287–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ps.18058.orf.

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Abstract One of the most crucial decisions to make for parents of children with Autism in Ghana (just like for others in most bilingual and multilingual environments) is what language(s) to use with their children. This study was conducted to first investigate the state of Autism in Ghana and then to unravel the language choices that parents make for their children and the factors that influence the choices they make. Through interviews, the use of observation and questionnaires, members of Autism Action Ghana, a support group for parents with children on the spectrum, were studied as a Commun

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Adika, Gordon Senanu Kwame. "English in Ghana: Growth, Tensions, and Trends." International Journal of Language, Translation and Intercultural Communication 1 (January 1, 2012): 151. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/ijltic.17.

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<strong><strong></strong></strong><p align="LEFT">T<span style="font-family: DejaVuSerifCondensed; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: DejaVuSerifCondensed; font-size: small;">his paper provides snapshots of the growth of English in Ghana by reviewing </span></span>the debates that have characterised its usage, recapitulating the distinctive features of Ghanaian English (GhaE), and examining current directions of its growth. From its fi rst implantation in Ghana, then the Gold Coast, in the early part of the 16 <span style="font

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Okoh, Harriet. "The English in Ghana: British, American or Hybrid English?" Studies in English Language Teaching 7, no. 2 (2019): 174. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/selt.v7n2p174.

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<p><em>As a result of colonization of the British, the English used in many African countries and for that matter Ghana, is the British standard variety. However, the English used in Ghana, appears to have been invaded by the American English. This poses a problem as both teachers and students especially at the senior high school level confuse themselves about which word or spelling is right and vice versa. This study thus seeks to investigate students’ awareness of this invasion, the extent of the invasion and also to ascertain which of the aspects of the language has been much in

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Ofori, Dominic Maximilian, and Mohammed Albakry. "I own this language that everybody speaks." English World-Wide 33, no. 2 (2012): 165–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.33.2.03ofo.

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Based on interviews conducted in ten Catholic churches of the Ghanaian capital, Accra, the paper offers a profile of English use in Ghana and reports on the attitudes of Ghanaians toward English as the official language of their country. The results reveal the influential role English plays in the different settings of Ghanaian communication as well as the high esteem afforded to the English language by the majority of Ghanaian respondents. Most of them cited the numerous benefits that English, as a language of wider communication, brings to the individual speaker and the country.

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Tom-Lawyer, Oris, and Michael Thomas. "Re-examining the Status of the English Language in Anglophone Western Africa: A Comparative Study of Ghana and Nigeria." English Linguistics Research 9, no. 4 (2020): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/elr.v9n4p6.

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This paper re-examines the status of English as a Second Language (ESL) in Anglophone Western Africa by comparing its use in Nigeria and Ghana. The research is based on the premise that the medium of instruction impacts the quality of education (Ferguson, 2013). The significance of the research is that it is one of the first studies to compare the standard of English language usage in the two countries to establish whether there is a positive link between the quality of education and the language of instruction (Williams, 2011). Predicated on a critical literature review, some of the issues an

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Fenyi, Kojo, Enoch Mensah Awukuvi, John Andoh, and Francis K. Pere. "Language Policy vrs Language Reality in the Ghanaian Classroom: A Study of Colleges of Education." EduLine: Journal of Education and Learning Innovation 1, no. 1 (2021): 34–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.35877/454ri.eduline391.

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This descriptive qualitative study attempted to understand, explore and report the occasions and reasons for which a tutor or a student would use the native language in the second language classroom in a national language policy context, like Ghana, where such practice is disallowed. To use the L1 in the L2 classroom or not has been an ongoing debate in Applied Linguistics and Teaching English as Second/Foreign Language (TESL/TESOL, TEFL), in that, while a group insists on a strict monolingual English-only ESL classroom, another group thinks a reasonable quantity of L1 and appropriate use of s

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Yaw Akoto, Osei, and Joseph Benjamin A. Afful. "What Languages are in Names? Exploring the Languages in Church Names in Ghana." ATHENS JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY 8, no. 1 (2021): 37–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.30958/ajp.8-1-2.

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Several studies over the years have employed the rhetorical question "What is in a name?" to uncover the semantic-pragmatic imports of names. This paper examines church names (ecclesionyms) which constitute part of the religio-onomastic landscape of Ghana to discover the various languages embedded in them. To achieve this task, we gathered names of churches from ‘online’ (websites of associations of Christian churches) and ‘offline’ sources (posters, signages and billboards). We manually searched the data and identified all languages embedded in the church names. Guided by Akoto’s (2018) globa

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Owusu, Edward, John Agor, and Evershed Kwasi Amuzu. "Second Language Learners’ Family Background and Their English Writing Competence: The Case of a Private Tertiary Institution in Ghana." Studies in English Language Teaching 3, no. 4 (2015): 466. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/selt.v3n4p466.

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<p><em>This work assesses the effects of</em><em> </em><em>family background of second language learners on their academic writing competence in English. A cursory</em><em> </em><em>study of some examination scripts of first-year students reveals some poor writing skills of students in areas such as concord, spelling, capitalization, and fragmentation errors.30 participants were selected from a class of 121 students</em><em> </em><em>from the Ghana Baptist University College, a private</em><em> <

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James, Nsoh Adogpa. "Technical-vocational education and language policy in Ghana." International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies 7, no. 1 (2015): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.5897/ijeaps2014.0361.

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Yeboah-Banin, Abena A., Modestus Fosu, and Marian Tsegah. "Linguistic Complexity and Second Language Advertising Audiences: Is There a Case for Linguistic Exclusion?" Journal of Communication Inquiry 42, no. 1 (2017): 70–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0196859917737292.

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In many Anglophone developing countries, the language of most public service advertising is English, a language that is second rather than primary for audiences. Set in a dual-language context where English exists alongside several local languages, as means of interaction, this means that audiences must engage with messages in a language not necessarily preferred for conversation. In addition, messages are often carried on radio, a transient medium where meaning can be lost in the temporality of messages. This increases the task on audiences for processing messages, as the ability to understan

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Kpogo, Felix, and Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole. "The influence of native English-speaking environment on Akan-English bilinguals’ production of English inter-dental fricatives." International Journal of Bilingualism 24, no. 4 (2019): 559–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367006919844032.

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Aims and Objectives: This study examined how age of acquisition, immersion in a native English-speaking environment, and phonological environment influence Akan-English bilinguals’ production of English inter-dental fricatives. Design/Methodology: Forty-five Akan-English bilinguals who immigrated to the USA between the ages of 10 and 64 participated. English inter-dental fricatives occurring in word-initial, intervocalic, and word-final positions were elicited through a production task using sentence frames. Accuracy of production was analyzed relative to age of acquisition, relative length of

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Afrifa, Grace Ampomaa, Jemima Asabea Anderson, and Gladys Nyarko Ansah. "The choice of English as a home language in urban Ghana." Current Issues in Language Planning 20, no. 4 (2019): 418–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2019.1582947.

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Opoku-Amankwa, Kwasi. "English-only language-in-education policy in multilingual classrooms in Ghana." Language, Culture and Curriculum 22, no. 2 (2009): 121–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07908310903075159.

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Kwame, Abukari, and Marit Westergaard. "The acquisition of English articles among L1 Dagbani L2 English learners." Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 65, no. 4 (2020): 496–534. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cnj.2020.20.

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AbstractThis study investigates the acquisition of articles in L2 English by L1 speakers of Dagbani, a Gur language spoken in Ghana. Dagbani differs from English in that it has two definite articles, no indefinite article, and a zero-article which may express definiteness, indefiniteness as well as genericity. The study consisted of a Forced-choice task (FCT) and an Acceptability judgement task (AJT) which were administered to Dagbani teenagers with an intermediate proficiency in English (n = 45) and a group of native English speakers as controls (n = 8). The results showed that the learners’

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Asafo-Adjei, Ramos. "Benchmarking of the English Language Component of the Mature Students’ Entrance Examinations in Ghana against the WASSCE English Language Component." Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences 12, no. 4 (2021): 164. http://dx.doi.org/10.36941/mjss-2021-0037.

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This paper was purposed on benchmarking the English language component of the Mature Students’ Entrance Examinations (MSEE) (administered in Ghana by universities to select undergraduate candidates) to the English language component of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) which constitutes the mainstream Ghanaian university undergraduate entrance examination. The qualitative design (specifically, multiple case study design) was employed for this study. Using the multi-stage sampling technique, six Ghanaian universities (from whom eighteen English language component o

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Kwao, Alex, Gertrude Torto, F. R. Ackah-Jnr, and Appiah John. "Speak English, Don’t Speak Vernacular. Language Culture and Practice, and Policy Implications in Schools." Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal 8, no. 5 (2021): 617–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.14738/assrj.85.10202.

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Compulsory adoption of language culture appears to heighten controversy and tension in schools. This phenomenon seems like a ‘dilemma’ judging from the way of policy and practice in schools. Language culture at the foundation stages seems to be strictly monolingual in some schools contrary to the dynamics of the education curriculum. This indeed seems to be a cultural idiosyncrasy that underpins cultural practices in some schools. Ghana Education Service recommends the speaking of English as medium of instruction at the early stages in schools, and so, English as official language is largely u

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Rupp, Laura. "The function of Student Pidgin in Ghana." English Today 29, no. 4 (2013): 13–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078413000412.

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The emergence of Student Pidgin in Ghana is estimated to have started fairly recently: between 1965 and the early 1970s (Huber, 1999; Dako, 2002). Male students in high prestige senior secondary schools and universities have been credited with leading in the development of Student Pidgin. The use of Student Pidgin has since been spreading among some girls and is currently found in an increasing number of contexts, including the home. The fact that students use Student Pidgin seems unexpected, considering the fact that they are competent speakers of Standard English.2 In this context, the quest

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Schmidt, Sebastian. "New Ways of Analysing the History of Varieties of English – An Acoustic Analysis of Early Pop Music Recordings from Ghana." Research in Language 10, no. 2 (2012): 123–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10015-011-0045-6.

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Focusing on English in Ghana, this paper explores some ways in which early popular music recordings might be used to reconstruct the phonology of colonial and post-colonial Englishes in a situation where other recordings are (mostly) absent. While the history of standard and, to a certain degree, non-standard varieties of “Inner Circle Englishes” (Kachru 1986) has received linguistic attention, diachronic investigations of Outer Circle varieties are still the exception. For the most part, descriptions of the history of post-colonial Englishes are restricted to sociohistorical outlines fr

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Laitin, David D. "The Tower of Babel as a Coordination Game: Political Linguistics in Ghana." American Political Science Review 88, no. 3 (1994): 622–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2944799.

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The problem of choosing an indigenous official language for multilingual states in general and for Ghana in particular is treated as one of coordination in an n-person tipping game. Even with an assumption that the equilibrium outcome of all-English is deficient, the mechanisms for reaching an indigenous language solution are difficult to find. A lottery (a theoretically attractive approach to the solution of coordination games) is less attractive when applied to the issue of language coordination. Empirical data based on interviews from six different regions of Ghana show the limits and possi

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Arthur-Shoba, Jo, and Millicent Quarcoo. "English in the mix: Evolving roles of English in the language practices of Twi speakers in Ghana." Language Matters 43, no. 1 (2012): 77–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2012.654501.

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Skinner, David E. "Conversion to Islam and the Promotion of ‘Modern’ Islamic Schools in Ghana." Journal of Religion in Africa 43, no. 4 (2013): 426–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12341264.

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AbstractThis article analyzes the transformation of Islamic education frommakaranta(schools for the study of the Qurʾān) to what are called English/Arabic schools, which combine Islamic studies with a British curriculum taught in the English language. These schools were initially founded in coastal Ghana during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, primarily by missionaries who had converted from Christianity and had had English-language education or by agents of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission based in London. The purposes of these schools were to provide instruction to allow young

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Torto, Richard T. "Aristotelian Rhetorical Theory as a Framework for Analyzing Advertising Texts in the Print Media in Ghana." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 10, no. 3 (2020): 269. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1003.02.

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Advertisements are fashioned in diverse forms, but in most of them, language is absolutely essential. Although visual images, graphic and color designs and other techniques constitute aspects of print advertising, it is the language of the advertisement that enables consumers to identify a product and remember it. Indeed, language has a powerful influence on readers and their behavioral patterns. The English Language is employed in the print media in Ghana as a means of communicating information about goods and services with the goal of persuading the consuming public to take purchasing decisi

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Anderson, Jemima Asabea, John Franklin Wiredu, Gladys Nyarko Ansah, George Frimpong-Kodie, Elizabeth Orfson-Offei, and Dennis Boamah-Boateng. "A linguistic landscape of the central business district of Accra." Legon Journal of the Humanities 31, no. 1 (2020): 1–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ljh.v31i1.1.

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Using the mixed method research approach, this study investigated the linguistic landscape of the central business district of Accra, Ghana. The study employed both the Ethnolinguistic Vitality Theory (EV) and the Place Semiotics Theory to explore the types of signage displayed by shop owners in the Makola market, the languages used on these signs, the dominant language(s) on the signs and how the use of language reflects the ethnolinguistic vitality of the local languages used in Accra. The findings present a very busy linguistic landscape where shop owners use the names of their companies an

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Anderson, Jemima Asabea, John Franklin Wiredu, Gladys Nyarko Ansah, George Frimpong-Kodie, Elizabeth Orfson-Offei, and Dennis Boamah-Boateng. "A linguistic landscape of the central business district of Accra." Legon Journal of the Humanities 31, no. 1 (2020): 1–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ljh.v31i1.1.

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Using the mixed method research approach, this study investigated the linguistic landscape of the central business district of Accra, Ghana. The study employed both the Ethnolinguistic Vitality Theory (EV) and the Place Semiotics Theory to explore the types of signage displayed by shop owners in the Makola market, the languages used on these signs, the dominant language(s) on the signs and how the use of language reflects the ethnolinguistic vitality of the local languages used in Accra. The findings present a very busy linguistic landscape where shop owners use the names of their companies an

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Amuzu, Evershed Kwasi. "A Comparative Study of Bilingual Verb Phrases in Ewe-English and Gengbe-French Codeswitching." Journal of Language Contact 7, no. 2 (2014): 250–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/19552629-00702002.

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This article describes contact phenomena between two closely related varieties of the Gbe language cluster Ewe and Gengbe each with a Germanic and a Romance language. The focus is on a comparison of verb phrases in Ewe-English codeswitching, spoken in Ghana, and Gengbe-French codeswitching, spoken in Togo. It is the first qualitative comparative study of this kind although quite a number of local (West African) languages are in contact with English and French. It finds that because the two varieties of Gbe are morphosyntactically similar, there are remarkable morphosyntactic similarities betwe

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Anani, Gifty Edna. "A Review of Existing Debates That Have Persisted Over the Choice of Language as a Medium of Instruction in Ghanaian Classrooms." International Research in Education 7, no. 2 (2019): 38. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ire.v7i2.15013.

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The choice of language to use as a medium of instruction across the curriculum in schools has been a contentious issue in Africa. Ghana, like many multilingual African countries, has not been spared this serious challenge of language choice. In fact, it has become a worrying issue of concern to many Ghanaians who have an interest in education. This paper provides snapshots of varied opinions on selecting a language as a medium of instruction in Ghanaian classrooms. It discusses the existing debates on the use of English language as a medium of instruction and also asserts the writer’s stance o

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Brock-Utne, Birgit. "Language of Instruction and Learning in Mathematics and Science in Some African Countries." African and Asian Studies 12, no. 1-2 (2013): 83–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15692108-12341252.

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Abstract This article looks into the unfounded belief in many so-called anglophone countries in Africa that mathematics and science are best taught in English and not in an African language, the language pupils and teachers normally speak and command much better than English. Examples are given from Tanzania, South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho and Ghana. The reintroduction of English from the 5th grade in primary school in maths and science in the Kiswahili speaking island of Zanzibar is discussed at some length. Examples from Africa are contrasted with examples from some Asian countries like Sri

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Ntim, Stephen. "Do Oral and Literacy Skills in Native Ghanaian Akan Language Modulate English Reading Comprehension as Second Language? A Study in Selected Basic Schools in Ghana." Education and Linguistics Research 2, no. 2 (2016): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/elr.v2i2.8867.

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<p>This study investigated oral and literacy skills in native Ghanaian Akan language in mediating English reading comprehension of bilingual basic school students. Levene’s test for homogeneity of variance between groups on questions directly found in text showed variances were significantly different [F=49.070, p=0.00]. Bonferroni Post-hoc test comparing groups on questions requiring making multiple sentence meanings to be able to answer, data indicated a significant difference between mean scores of students who speak both English and Akan and students who speak English Only in favour

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Dako, Kari. "Ghanaianisms." English World-Wide 22, no. 1 (2001): 23–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.22.1.03dak.

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A list of vocabulary items peculiar to English in Ghana has been compiled over the last ten years. Included are items that have appeared in print at least three times within eight years. Most items were tested on Ghanaians of varying ages, ethnic backgrounds and levels of education to ascertain familiarity and usage. The paper is based on the above data. It classifies the entries according to (1) origin: English, local, hybrid; and (2) semantic and formal subcategorisations, i.e. (i) which semantic and formal processes the English items have undergone, (ii) from which semantic domains the loca

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A. Al-Mutairi, Mohammad. "Kachru’s Three Concentric Circles Model of English Language: An Overview of Criticism & the Place of Kuwait in it." English Language Teaching 13, no. 1 (2019): 85. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v13n1p85.

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This paper attempts to examine in a descriptive way the pioneering model of &ldquo;World Englishes&rdquo; proposed by Kachru in the mid-1980s that allocates the presence of English into three concentric circles: The Inner Circle, the Outer Circle, and the Expanding Circle. The Inner Circle presents the countries where English is used as a native language and as a first language among people. These countries include the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The Outer Circle includes countries that have old historical British colonial relations and where English is commonly us

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Lomotey, Charlotte Fofo. "English Language Education as Practice of Freedom in Ghana: An Analysis of Teachers’ Views and Opinions." Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics 3, no. 5 (2021): 18–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/jeltal.2021.3.5.3.

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This study examined the views and opinions of Senior High School (SHS) English language teachers on critical pedagogy as well as its applicability in their classrooms. To achieve these objectives, 220 teachers of English were sampled to respond to a questionnaire, with 50 out of this number selected to take part in an interview. The data were subjected to statistical analysis using the SPSS and thematic analysis by a simple system of coding. Results suggest that teachers consider critical pedagogy as a viable alternative to the traditional teaching practice. Based on the results, it is suggest

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Gadzekpo, Audrey, Abena Animwaa Yeboah-Banin, and Sarah Akrofi-Quarcoo. "A case of double standards? Audience attitudes to professional norms on local and English language radio news programmes in Ghana." Journal of African Media Studies 12, no. 1 (2020): 3–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jams_00008_1.

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The proliferation of radio stations across Africa has engendered an increase in local language radio stations and fuelled culturally-rooted practices of news delivery considered by many media professionals as sub-standard. This article explores the reception practices of multi-lingual audiences in Ghana, focusing on their views on the different norms and approaches of local language and English language radio newscasts. Using data from a convenience sample of 1000 radio listeners in five Ghanaian cosmopolitan cities the study finds that audiences prefer more performative modes of news delivery

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Asante-Nimako, Davida Aba Mensima. "Problems Related to the Teaching of English Pronunciation in Pre-service Institutions: A Study at the Wesley College of Education, Kumasi, Ghana." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 7, no. 6 (2018): 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.7n.6p.37.

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The purpose of the study was to find out the problems related to the teaching of English pronunciation in the pre-service training institutions. Wesley College of Education, Kumasi, Ghana, was used as a case study. Out of the problems, deductions were made to make recommendations. Three tutors of English and twenty students were purposively sampled for the study. Through the use of interviews, three key findings, realized from the research include the following: First, the mode of correcting students’ mispronunciation. The manner in which some tutors correct students’ mispronunciation was foun

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Dansieh, Solomon A. "Teaching Oral English in an ESL Setting: Some Challenges Observed by Teachers in Upper-West Ghana." International Journal of English Linguistics 8, no. 6 (2018): 172. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v8n6p172.

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This study sought to establish from teachers of English in Senior High Schools in the Upper-West Region of Ghana what they considered to be the main challenges confronting their students in the Oral English course. Thirty-four (34) teachers participated in the survey, which used questionnaire and personal observation for data gathering. The study found that there was a high tendency for features of the L1 of students to affect their learning of L2, especially in the areas of phonemes, morphemes, words, sentences and discourse structures. This was not surprising, as English was the L2 of majori

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Tabiri, Michael Owusu, and Gifty Budu. "Difficulties Francophone Learners go through in Ghana: The Case of Ghana Technology University College." International Research in Education 5, no. 1 (2017): 72. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ire.v5i1.10570.

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This research investigates difficulties that Francophone learners encounter in Anglophone countries.Francophone learners who pursue further studies in Anglophone countries could face academic, social, economic, religious and political difficulties due to their literary incompetence in English language (L3). Through the method of investigation and answering of questionnaires by learners, it was uncovered and affirmed that the main difficulties Francophone learners encounter in Anglophone countries were academic, social, religious, and political. It was revealed that the learning difficulties of

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Nchindila, Bernard M., and Richard T. Torto. "Persuasive Effect of Figures of Speech in the English of Advertisements in the Ghanaian Press." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 10, no. 5 (2020): 492. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1005.03.

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Little is known about persuasive effects of figures of speech in the English of advertisements in Ghanaian press. In the current study, we focused on this persuasive effect of figures of speech in the English employed in advertisements in newspapers in Ghana. Since advertising is a genre of mass media communication which unearths the exceptional qualities of products and services in a persuasive fashion, it is also a form of marketing communication through which business organizations inform the general public about new or improved commercial endeavors. Therefore, language plays an indispensab

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Asafo-Adjei, Ramos, Ernest Kwesi Klu, and Albert Agbesi Wornyo. "English Language Component of the Mature Students’ Entrance Examinations into Ghanaian Universities: Placement, Diagnostic or Both?" Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 10, no. 4 (2021): 201. http://dx.doi.org/10.36941/ajis-2021-0110.

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One way that Ghanaian universities admit undergraduate students is an examination organised for candidates who are twenty-five years and above. This examination is known as the Mature Students’ Entrance Examinations (MSEE). This paper argues that the English language component of the MSEE should not only be used for placement purposes, but, also, for diagnostic purposes. A desk survey approach to research was adopted involving 43 relevant literature which were reviewed and synthesised. The study indicates that academic writing, referred to as Communication Skills, falls under the domain of Eng

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Ansah, Gladys Nyarko. "Cognitive models of anger in Akan." Cognitive Linguistic Studies 1, no. 1 (2014): 131–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cogls.1.1.06ans.

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This paper analyses the conventional metaphorical expressions of anger in Akan, a Kwa language spoken in Ghana, West Africa, in order to identify conventional conceptual metaphors of the concept in the language. Native and relatively monolingual speakers of Akan in semi-rural and rural Ghana participated in focus group discussions to generate a corpus of 23,800 words from which metaphorical expressions of anger were drawn. The analysis reveals that Akan conceptualisations of anger are based on both general metonymic and metaphorical principles that are grounded in fundamental human experiences

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Keleve, Mary P. "Needs analysis for learners of English in Ghana in relation to language goals and communicative goals." ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 109-110 (January 1, 1995): 124–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/itl.109-110.06kel.

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Asante-Nimako, Davida Aba Mensima. "How the Teaching of English Pronunciation can be improved in Pre-service Training Institutions; A study at Wesley College of Education, Kumasi, Ghana." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 8, no. 2 (2019): 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.8n.2p.61.

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The focus of this research was to discover how the teaching of English pronunciation in the pre-service training institutions in Ghana could be improved. It was a study at Wesley College of Education, Kumasi, Ghana. The purposive sampling method was employed to select three tutors of English and twenty students for the study. Interviews and observations were done to gather information. As part of the findings; Pronunciation teaching must be included in course outlines of the colleges of Education. The Transforming Teacher Education and Learning (T-TEL) programme should factor in pronunciation

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Opoku-Amankwa, Kwasi, and Aba Brew-Hammond. "‘Literacy is the ability to read and write English’: defining and developing literacy in basic schools in Ghana." International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 14, no. 1 (2011): 89–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13670051003692857.

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Amoako, Yaw Ampem, Nancy Ackam, John-Paul Omuojine, et al. "Caregiver burden in Buruli ulcer disease: Evidence from Ghana." PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 15, no. 6 (2021): e0009454. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009454.

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Background Buruli ulcer disease (BUD) results in disabilities and deformities in the absence of early medical intervention. The extensive role of caregiving in BUD is widely acknowledged, however, associated caregiver burden is poorly understood. In this paper we assessed the burden which caregivers experience when supporting patients with BUD in Ghana. Method/ principal findings This qualitative study was conducted in 3 districts in Ghana between August and October 2019. 13 semi-structured interviews were conducted on caregivers of BUD patients in the local language of Twi. Data was translate

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Fenyi, Kojo, Ivy Jones-Mensah, Michael Owusu Tabiri, and Emmanuel Owusu. "Teaching ESL Listening Skills in Ghanaian Senior High Schools: A Study of Agona West Municipality." JEE (Journal of English Education) 7, no. 1 (2021): 77–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.30606/jee.v7i1.787.

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Listening skill is one of the four important language competencies. However, it has not received the needed scholarly attention, not only in classroom pedagogy and curriculum planning but also in studies and researches in Applied Linguistics and Teaching English as Second Language. This study therefore attempts an investigation into the teaching and learning of listening skills in the language classroom in Ghana. It focuses on three issues in English as Second Language (ESL) listening comprehension; i) the strategies/methods for teaching listening skills, ii) the challenges for learning listen

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KWABENA, SYLVESTER, and Abraham Okrah. "Exploring the Syntax of the Mo/Deg Adjective phrase." JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN LINGUISTICS 6, no. 2 (2015): 906–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.24297/jal.v6i2.2951.

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This study is largely syntactic and descriptive, and it explores the structure of the Mo/Deg adjective phrase. It, thus, provides answers to the question, What is the nature of the Mo/Deg adjective phrase? Data was gathered from thirty-five (35) literate native Mo/Deg speakers who were also very skilful in English language using purposive sampling as the ability to speak and write well in both English and Mo/Deg was crucial. Short simple English sentences which have the structure of the adjective were designed and given to the respondents to rewrite in Mo/Deg.This was done to observe the natur

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Gadzekpo, Audrey. "Tuning in to his-story: an account of radio in Ghana through the experience of B. S. Gadzekpo." Africa 91, no. 2 (2021): 177–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972021000012.

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AbstractThis article introduces a personalized account of the early years of radio in Ghana based on an unpublished manuscript by one of its pioneering broadcasters – Bernard Senedzi (B. S.) Gadzekpo. An accomplished writer who produced manuscripts in both English and the Eʋe language, Gadzekpo's radio memoir is written from the vantage point of someone who worked in both the colonial and postcolonial broadcast service for nearly thirty years. It foregrounds African broadcasters in the history of radio and offers insights into the complex realities of Africa's mutable encounter with radio and

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Sekyi-Baidoo, Yaw. "English ‘non-name’ address forms in the non-native sociolinguistic context: The case study of the Akan of Ghana." Sociolinguistic Studies 13, no. 2-4 (2019): 379–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/sols.37831.

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Owusu, Edward, Samuel Kyei Adoma, and Daniel Oti Aboagye. "Sociolinguistics of the Varieties of West African Pidgin Englishes—A Review." Studies in English Language Teaching 4, no. 4 (2016): 534. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/selt.v4n4p534.

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<p><em>Language contact is a key issue in the field of sociolinguistics. One notable phenomenon in the field of language contact is Pidgin English. Historically, Pidgin began as a language marked by traditional interference used chiefly by the prosperous and privileged sections of a community, represented by the unskilled and illiterate class of the society (Quirk et al., 1985). However, nowadays, it has gained status in some communities to the extent that it has become the mother-tongue of such communities. This paper, therefore, investigates the sociolinguistics of the multiplici

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Ansah, Richard, Ebenezer Agbaglo, and Regina A. T. Mensah. "Gender Variation in the Writings of Ghanaian Colleges of Education Students: A Study of Syntactic Complexity." Advances in Language and Literary Studies 12, no. 4 (2021): 140. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.12n.4.p.140.

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This study explored the differences in the writings produced by both male and female students in colleges of education in Ghana with respect to syntactic complexity. The study was based on a corpus of two hundred examination essays which were collected from two hundred students in Assin Fosu, Wesley and Presbyterian colleges of education who took the English language Studies course (FDC 211) in 2018/2019 academic year. The study adopted a descriptive design, involving qualitative and quantitative methods. The analysis showed that the male students were more syntactically complex than the femal

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Danquah, Mustapha Bin. "Impact of Socio-Economic Factors on Students’ Achievement in English Language in the Senior High Schools in West Akim Municipality of Ghana." TEXILA INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC RESEARCH 7, no. 1 (2020): 61–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.21522/tijar.2014.07.01.art005.

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