Thursday, January 29, 2004
U.S. Language Battle Replicated in Ghana
Ghana's bilingual education lobby is battling a proposal to teach only English in that nation's schools. They prefer "mother tongue" (bilingual) education and claim: "the use of only mother tongue as medium of instruction had been tested and proven to be the most effective way of learning, including a second language such as English."
Actually immersion remains the only proven way to teach a person a new language. But then, the anti-English lobby would not get paid:
The government, the statement said, should provide resources to the Bureau of Ghana Languages, the Department of Ghanaian Languages of the University College of Education, Winneba to implement a local language policy and to strengthen their capacities to produce adequate local language books and train more local language teachers.
And if children don't learn English in Ghana after all this money is spent, well, that isn't the point.
|posted by Jim on 5:58 PM|
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