FEEL GOOD | Meet the woman who teaches children to read and write isiZulu and English via …

Community radio presenter, Gloria Mngadi. (Supplied) A Durban University of Technology alumni is teaching isiZulu and English to little children over WhatsApp.She came up with the idea during the pandemic as a creative teaching method.She says language is one of the most important parts of everyday life.A Durban University of Technology alumni has taken teaching language out the box by implementing a WhatsApp group where she gives lessons on reading and writing in isiZulu and English to children. The 30-year-old language practice graduate, Gloria Thandekile Mngadi, has used innovation and creativity to have an impact on children, this even during a global pandemic. “Ingosi yabantwana is a story telling group. It’s where I am educating children through story telling. I am educating them about preserving language and to also know the languages, isiZulu and English. At school, in the English class you don’t get a chance to interpret in your own language,” she said this week.Gloria Thandekile Mngadi teaches English and isiZulu through WhatsApp.Mngadi said Covid-19 taught her to think of more innovative and impactful ways to teach children the importance of preserving their language as Africans.   Mngadi, who hails from Ndwedwe, started the WhatsApp group called Ingosi Yabantwana, which means Children’s…
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