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teaching

COP-1: Introduction to Copulatives

Bafundi abahle: nansi incwadi ezonisiza ngokufundisa ngezibanjalo. kunesivivinyo ekugcineni. Dear learners: here’s a document that will help y’all by teaching about copulatives. there’s a test at the end.

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teaching

NC-1: Intro to Noun Classes

Bafundi abahle: nansi ncwadi ezonisiza ngokufundisa ngezigaba zamabizo. Kunesivivinyo ekugcineni. Dear readers: here’s a document which will help y’all by teaching about the noun classes. There’s a test at the end.

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Linguistics / ubuLimi

Numbers

I was humbled to read the awesome work done in Xitsonga about Mathematics Terminology, and inspired to write this blog. I’m still researching different ways of talking about geometry and rates of change, but numbers are things with which I am familiar. I teach the same lesson in many different ways, depending on whom I’m […]

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incwadinsuku / daily blog

Stop teaching isiZulu badly!

“I’ve been doing Zulu at school since Grade 6. I’m now in Grade 11 and I don’t understand what’s going on in class. The class is taught entirely in Zulu, and we mostly just listen as the teacher reads from the set-work, translating word for word. I know I’m going to fail next year.” – […]