What you need to unlearn from school


Hello Reader, So I have this learner. She was at the final unit of my Beginner Level, and it was time for her task – to write a Shona story of her own. Just her own words, using a set of pictures as a guide. She smiled, looked at me, and shook her head. She couldn’t get herself to say a word. 'I don’t know,' she said. 'Unorevei?' I asked. 'I can’t,' she replied. You see, she could clearly hear and understand much of what I was saying – her comprehension was far from zero. Yet she was adamant...