GHLS 430 — Project
Linguistics · University of Ghana
In this course students are encouraged to engage in projects such as creative writing, translation of texts into a Ghanaian language, collection and compilation of oral material, and related undertakings. Others include recording of radio and TV talk shows, transcribing, translating, and analysing the texts. Code switching and code-mixing will also be studied paying attention to the phonology and morphology of borrowed words. Another area of interest will be the recording of Akan at local arbitration. SPECIAL GHANAIAN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY COURSE This course is targeted mainly at foreign students who want to take advantage of their stay in Ghana to learn a Ghanaian language. It will be offered upon demand only and subject to the availability of an instructor already in the employment of the university. The course provides beginners, intermediate and advanced courses in Ghanaian languages in both their spoken and written aspects. It is aimed at providing the students with survival-level skills in the various languages, so that they can cope with the most common everyday task in contexts where effective communication is very important. It will also provide those students who need knowledge of a particular Ghanaian language for research purposes; they will acquire the skills they need to facilitate their research. The main objectives of the programme are: To help learners acquire the skills in language learning, mostly listening and speaking (and later reading and writing). To provide learners with an insight into the culture and customs of the Ghanaian language speaking people as expressed in the language and compare it with their own. To help learners acquire the basic grammatical structures of the language.
- Credits
- 6
- Level
- Level 400
Other courses on this programme
- GHLS 111 — Ghanaian Language Proficiency for Beginners
- GHLS 112 — Intermediate Ghanaian Language Proficiency
- GHLS 113 — Advanced Ghanaian Language Proficiency I
- GHLS 114 — Advanced Ghanaian Language Proficiency II
- GHLS 441 — Written Literature of a Ghanaian Language
- GHLS 442 — Advanced Composition in a Ghanaian Language
- GHLS 443 — History and Development of a Ghanaian Language
- GHLS 444 — Topics in Ghanaian Language Studies
- LING 417 — Language and Law
- LNGS 301 — Introduction to Phonology
- LNGS 302 — Syntax I
- LNGS 304 — Morphology and Syntax of a Ghanaian language
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 2 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Humanities (2017).