Attitudes of Ghanaian Students towards the Establishment of a National Language in Ghana
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The research investigated language attitudes of Ghanaian Senior High Students of the final year towards their own languages, other Ghanaian and African languages that they speak and towards English with the aim of finding out whether any relationships exist between languages that a person speaks and his or her attitudes towards them as well as towards the native speakers of those languages and compares these attitudes with their attitudes towards English, the official language of the country. The research was also conducted to find out if a Ghanaian language will in future replace English as the national language. The methodology employed was the impressionistic approach. Key findings revealed that students have very strong attitudes towards their own languages. It was also discovered that they have relatively less positive attitudes towards other Ghanaian languages that they speak as they were learnt for instrumental reasons. Overwhelmingly, students showed very high positive attitudes towards English to an extent of willing to speak it often to their children in their future homes. It was concluded that there are unlikely chances for any Ghanaian language to replace English.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".