Asante-Twi: Introducing an Integrated Model is primarily meant to help learners perform some basic tasks in the language, guided by repetition, role-play, and acceptable cultural practices. Learners without instructors (i.e., teach-yourself learners) can benefit greatly from Asante-Twi: Introducing an Integrated Model by directing their questions to native speakers or sending mail to the author at any time.

The author’s major aim is to guide Asante-Twi learners (especially, beginners) through a much more careful study and practice of some aspects of basic Akan.

Asante-Twi: Introducing an Integrated Model assembles a variety of established approaches, with reading, repetition, and experiential reporting as the major tasks available to learners. This constitutes a modification of the author’s Wo nso ka bi: Akan basic grammar and practice (2013) and also a follow-up to the “Let’s Speak” African Language Series introduced by the National African Language Resource Center (NALRC).

The publication adds to the resources that Beginning Akan learners require for constant practice to build and strengthen relevant interest and self-confidence. Meanwhile, the author still believes that the communicative language teaching (CLT) approach, which has been emphasized in recent times (see Tudor, 2003; Larsen-Freeman & Anderson, 2011), is unable to capture the full picture single-handedly.