GHLS 113 — Advanced Ghanaian Language Proficiency I

Linguistics · University of Ghana

This course will continue to place equal emphasis on areas of listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation. More complex syntactic structures of the language such as serial verb constructions and their negation, relative clauses and inherent complement verbs will be introduced. Aspects of the written and oral literature of the language will be taught. Students will also be required to engage native speakers in complex conversations and also handle topics in various domains. They will be encouraged to listen and contribute to Ghanaian language programmes on radio, especially Radio Univers. By the end of the course, students should be able to write various types of compositions in the respective Ghanaian languages and also be able to write reports based on interviews and fieldwork. They should be able to read fluently and with comprehension some basic primers and supplementary readers in the various Ghanaian language. They should be able translate various types of texts from English to the respective Ghanaian languages and vice versa. Course Requirement: The student must have taken GHLS 111 and GHLS 112 or a Beginner‘s and an Intermediate Course in the respective Ghanaian Languages.

Credits

3

Level

Level 400

Course details from University of Ghana Volume 2 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Humanities (2017).