Strategies and Media for Teaching and Learning Oral Literature in Kenya: A Study
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Date
1987
Authors
Ettyang, E. K. K.
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Kenyatta University
Abstract
The main purpose of the study was to investigate
the strategies and Media teachers and students used
in teaching and learning Oral literature in selected
secondary schools in Nakuru District with the view to
determining their understanding and utilization of the
same.
Past studies and various oral literature scholars
have emphasized the need to expose the learner to a
variety of experiences if the teaching and learning
or oral literature has to be complete. This, therefore,
calls for the utilization of a variety of strategies
and Media. However, no study on strategies and Media
and the teaching of oral literature has been carried out.
This study, therefore, is aimed at stimulating total
but conscious and systematic application of strategies
and Media in teaching and learning oral literature in
Secondary Schools.
The study was conducted in four maintained, four
Assisted and four Private Secondary Schools. The
target group was Secondary school teachers that handled
Literature in English in schools that had registered
candidates for the Kenya Certificate of Education
examination in the subject, for at least the tast two
years. This was hoped would give a clearer picture on
strategies and Media applied in the teaching and
learning of oral literature.
The data was collected using a questionnaire which
was completed by 87.5% of the targeted respondents.
It had twenty six (closed and open) items which sought
the following information: the teachers' qualifications
and experience, their major source of oral literature
material, understanding and utilization of strategies
and Media and how strategies and Media were integrated
in the teaching and learning of oral literature.
Data collected was analysed using descriptive
statistics; - a tally sheet for tneclosed-ended
questions was prepared and their frequencies and
percentages computed. For open-ended questions, coding
frames wer~ developed and the responses classified
according to the categories in the coding frames and
their frequencies and percentages computed.
The findings of the study revealed that the Teachers'
understanding of strategies and Media was limited.
There was an obvious over dependence on print Media
at the expense of other Media. The application of
strategies and Media in teaching and learning oral
literature was incomplete, unconscious and haphazard.
It is therefore recommended that Secondary
teachers' training institutions (including the Universities)
re-examine their syllabi to see whethertheyoffer the
teachers who qualify a chance to acquire a sound
understanding and application of strategies and Media
in teaching and learning oral literature.
Regular Seminars and inservice courses should be
organized to give untrained teachers some basics on
educational Media and to appraisse all teachers on
the latest developments in this area.
Description
Department of Educational Communication and Technology, 150p. 1987