Capturing the multilingual reality in Ghana with Colin Reilly, Angela Gayton and Elvis ResCue
Description
This episode of Africa's LSP Podcast features a discussion with a team of researchers who studied the intersection of multilingualism, language policy, and economic opportunities in Ghana.
The researchers, Dr Colin Reilly, a Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Stirling, Dr Angela Gayton, a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and Education at the University of Glasgow, and Dr Elvis ResCue a Human Resource Professional and Applied Linguist, discuss their motivations for the study, the methodology, and key findings. They highlight the importance of multilingualism in the Ghanaian job market. Learn more from their reasarch titled "Language and employment in Ghana: capturing the multilingual reality."
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