Our recent study, published in the Journal for Multicultural Education, found that primary school students in Ghana performed significantly better in scientific reasoning when tested in Twi – their native language – rather than English. Key findings: 🧩 Language of assessment was the strongest predictor of reasoning skills. 🏫 Students assessed in Twi outperformed theirContinue reading “Language of Assessment Matters: New Evidence from Ghana 🇬🇭”
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Dad, how do you say dimples in Gā?
During the pandemic my son, Teddy, and I bought a Gā language dictionary. He had started to ask me random questions about how to say certain English words in my native language -Gā. His questions reminded me of my time as a Spanish instructor during my master’s degree program where my students used the phraseContinue reading “Dad, how do you say dimples in Gā?”
Edwin Nii Bonney 