Imagine this: You’re in a foreign country and you walk around
listening to the locals talk to one another in their native tongue. They all
act like it’s easy and like they actually enjoy it! You just stand
there….dumbfounded….. overwhelmed…. and lost. Then they try to talk to you!
They want you to engage with this language too? Oh no, not going to happen. You
get that “deer in the headlights” look, you start to sweat, and you feel so
embarrassed and uncomfortable because you can’t understand what you’re hearing.
Unfortunately, a scenario similar to this one is all too familiar
for some learners. This is how some feel when they look at a sheet of
paper with a math problem on it or when they are sitting in the classroom and
their teacher is going on about everything from addition to the z-intercept.
