[lg policy] Ghana: Lecturer Asked Voltarians To Promote Literacy In Ewe Language

[Harold Schiffman]

Lecturer Asked Voltarians To Promote Literacy In Ewe Language
GNA

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*Mr Pascal Kpodo, a Lecturer at the Department of Ewe Education at the
University of Education, Winneba has called on Ewes to promote the language
in the country.*

He said this was because higher education in Ewe, which had deep roots in
three African countries, guaranteed job opportunities, particularly in the
fields of linguistics.

Mr Kpodo who was speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview
said most Voltarians could not read and write in the native language, a
development which he alleged, was affecting the standard of education in
the Volta Region.

He said though the country was implementing a language policy, more had to
be done in equipping teachers with local language competency for desired
results.

Mr Kpodo said barring students for expressing themselves in local dialects
was not in the right direction because 'it is not right for us to downgrade
the language of our identity. Allowing it to die is to allow our heritage
and culture to die'.

He therefore called for rigorous promotion of the language through the
media and other avenues to prevent it from dying out, and said the College
was offering Bachelor Degrees and other certificates in the Ewe Language
education.

Mr Kpodo said final year thesis and other academic works at the Department
were being produced in Ewe; whiles there was an on-going project to
translate text books into Ewe language.

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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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