Using local dialect is not a panacea to fallen standards of education

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• Asiwome 11 years ago

  I am sure that people who travel outside the country to study take time to study the languages of their host countries.
  Language holds the secret to culture, but it is farcical to think that these students cannot relate to ...
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  I am sure that people who travel outside the country to study take time to study the languages of their host countries.
  Language holds the secret to culture, but it is farcical to think that these students cannot relate to the culture that is espoused by the English language if they are taught similar concepts that originate from their societies.
  Let English be taught as a second language along with other Ghanaian languages.

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• Kwapps 11 years ago

  Looking round the world, countries with many local dialects seem to lack social cohesion. We need strong leadership to push a common language policy through because it's benefits will automatically remove the challenges in te ...
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  Looking round the world, countries with many local dialects seem to lack social cohesion. We need strong leadership to push a common language policy through because it's benefits will automatically remove the challenges in teaching. It's almost inconceivable that it's still under discussion today.

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• Asiwome 11 years ago

  I hope you are thinking about teaching Twi as a second language, otherwise you will be asking people whose native language is not Twi to give up their English identity in exchange for an Akan identity. The aim is to end ident ...
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  I hope you are thinking about teaching Twi as a second language, otherwise you will be asking people whose native language is not Twi to give up their English identity in exchange for an Akan identity. The aim is to end identity crises among Ghanaians and trading one foreign identity for another will not achieve that aim. On the other hand a people may have more than one official language as in the case of Switzerland which has four or Canada which has two or America which uses more than one official language.

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• Nii Tsokor 11 years ago

  English is the language that bonds all of us.We better start to communicate properly in the English language. Look at the poor standard of English that people write here.You can barely understand what they are trying to say.
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  English is the language that bonds all of us.We better start to communicate properly in the English language. Look at the poor standard of English that people write here.You can barely understand what they are trying to say.
  
  Give me one Ghanaian dialect that helps you communicate with people world-wide. None.

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• GHANABA 11 years ago

  Swahili has not propelled Tanzania and Kenya into an advanced industrialised countries,neither has Ethiopia nor Somalia.On the other hand English was introduced into Scotland,Wales,and Ireland as in Ghana.Now google a list o ...
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  Swahili has not propelled Tanzania and Kenya into an advanced industrialised countries,neither has Ethiopia nor Somalia.On the other hand English was introduced into Scotland,Wales,and Ireland as in Ghana.Now google a list of Scottish inventors and Irish writers and let us know why we can"t follow the same path.Bear in mind it was a Swiss German[Christaller] who wrote Twi for us.There is social cohesion in Switzerland with multiple Languages.

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