The Language Centre was founded in 1970 as a language research
department in the University of Ghana, under the then Faculty of Arts.
Its mandate was to focus on research and teaching related to the
improvement of performance in English, the official language, and the
various Ghanaian languages as vectors of education, culture and
community interaction. Since the 1970s, the Centre has been focusing on
research related to language learning, teaching and assessment, language
endangerment and documentation, multilingualism, intercultural
communication, and the interconnected areas of language and literature.
This book, in essence, reflects these research areas, but more than that
the constitutive research articles were produced jointly or severally by
different generations of directors and research fellows of the Centre,
over the four decades of the organization's existence. The ten chapters
of this commemorative anthology comprise selected research articles from
a very large pool of previously published works with continuing
relevance, as well as more recent works that have not yet been
published. The book is not designed for release as a discrete and
independent publication. On the contrary, it feeds into a much wider set
of commemorative collections from diverse units, all of which are
thematically linked in a manner designed to project the mission of the
University of Ghana.
