My language epiphany occurred in the summer of 1986. I had just spent a sabbatical year in Sweden and was on my way back home when I made a short detour to Manchester to present the work I had been ...

We have seen a mass failure rate in WAEC, NECO, and JAMB in certain geo-political zones of the country, and those are the ones that adopted the mother tongue in an over-subscribed manner. This is ...

Mattur, a village in Karnataka, is renowned as a "Sanskrit Grama" where Sanskrit is spoken daily, blending tradition with ...

Abstract: Recently, video-language understanding has achieved great success through large-scale pre-training. However, data scarcity remains a prevailing challenge. This study quantitatively reveals ...

Professor Wei Gong teaches “Elementary Chinese I” (CHIN103) and “Fourth-Year Chinese I” (CHIN221) alongside directing co-curricular activities like the calligraphy and Mahjong clubs at Wesleyan ...

This reading group explores how early-modern writers connected linguistic encounters – through translation, foreign tongues, unreadable scripts, religious chants, magical spells, or scientific ...

Ghana’s government introduced the policy as a means of cultural empowerment after generations of English, inherited from colonial rule and white supremacy. The Ghanaian government has announced a new ...

The history of language and education in Africa cannot be separated from the colonial project. British colonial education was never intended to create independent thinkers; it was designed to produce ...

The recent directive by the Ministry of Education that Ghanaian languages should be used as the medium of instruction in all basic schools (KG-JHS) is neither theoretically grounded nor empirically ...

The recent directive by the Ministry of Education that Ghanaian languages should be used as the medium of instruction in all basic schools (KG-JHS) is neither theoretically grounded nor empirically ...

Senior Vice President of IMANI Africa, Kofi Bentil, has described government’s directive for early-stage teaching and learning to be done in local languages as a step in the right direction. According ...