An Empirical Investigation into the use of English as the Medium of Instruction in Primary Schools in Ghana

Ghana is a multilingual society with English, a foreign language, as its official language, owing to the country's colonial heritage. Except in a few cases where children grow up in affluent homes where they are exposed to English from infancy, most Ghanaian children are exposed to English for the first time at school, after having gained some proficiency at home in the predominant language of the local community, which may be a mother tongue but not necessarily so for all children growing up in the community.