An Investigation into the Teaching and Learning of Twi in the Middle School with Particular Reference to Schools at and around Akropong – Akwapim

Abstract

In the Primary Schools under review children enter school at the age of six. On the whole, by the time they enter school they have not had any previous instruction in reading and writing. The technique employed in teaching of spoken Twi include language games, picture description, story – telling, conversations, simple rhymes and tongue – twisters, dramatisation and sentence construction exercises. The use of words are taught through model sentences, sentence construction and context study.