Compulsory Use of Mother Tongue in Ghanaian Schools
The Education Minister, Haruna Iddrisu, has made it compulsory for teachers in Ghana to use the mother tongue as a means of instruction in all Basic Schools.
This directive is part of efforts to improve teaching and learning, according to the Minister.
“Mr President, the story is told of a young girl whose teacher somewhere in the Ashanti Region went in and was waxing English, teaching at those early stages of development. Then, the child told the teacher that, ‘try to speak a little Twi, so that I can understand you’,”
The Minister gave this directive at the launch of the Free Tertiary Education for Persons with Disability by President John Dramani Mahama in Accra.
Author's summary: Ghana makes mother tongue compulsory in schools.