Factors Influencing the Availability and Utilisation of Instructional Media in Teaching of Kiswahiliin selected Public Primary Teachers Training Colleges in Kenya

Abstract

The study will be carried out with the main purpose of investigating availability and utilization of instructional media in teaching of Kiswahili in Primary Teachers Training Colleges (PITCs). Kiswahili being a compulsory and examinable subject in PTTCs, it is of paramounljrnportance to investigate the role played by instructional media to improve the quality of academic results. The literature review will be reviewed from related studies and relevant texts to establish the availability and utilisation of instructional media in PITCs. The study will be based on J:J:lgar Dales (1969) cone of experience which looks at learning from the continuum proposing that instruction provided to a learner should proceed from pictorial to highly abstract experiences in a sort of multi sensory approach to learning. The area of study will involve four selected Primary Teachers Training Colleges. Purposive sampling will be used to arrive at the four selected PITes. Data will be collected by use of questionnaires, checklists, closed group discussion and an interview schedule. The study will be a survey that will use both qualitative and quantitative study designs. Convenient and purposive sampling procedures will be used and data collected will be analyzed using frequencies a~d percentages and will be presented in form of tables. The study is expected to reveal the significance of instructional media in teaching process,