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Article Title: Teachers' Attitudes towards the Integrated Method of Teaching Oral Literature in Secondary Schools in Uasin-Gishu County, Kenya
by Lorna Wafula

Abstract:
The study investigated the challenges that teachers face while teaching Oral Literature using the integrated teaching method. This paper discusses the attitudes of the teachers towards the integrated method. The target population was the teachers of Literature and English in secondary schools in Eldoret Municipality Uasin Gishu County. All schools in the Municipality contributed towards the study by giving information through the questionnaire instrument. Out of these schools, a few were sampled out to participate in the interview and the observation schedules. Simple random sampling was used to select 12 secondary schools within Eldoret Municipality to participate in the interview schedule and 4 schools to participate in the observation and recording schedule. All the twenty-three schools in the Municipality participated. The Convenient sampling technique was used to select teachers to be observed while teaching in class. Instruments of data collection were the questionnaires, interviews and observation schedules. Descriptive statistical techniques such as frequencies and percentages were used in the analysis of the data collected. The teachers of Literature and English felt that the integrated approach had diluted oral literature. It had reduced it to a mere passage or to a listening and speaking skill. The study aimed at benefiting both the teachers and students of oral literature a by making recommendations aimed at improving the teachers' knowledge and use of the integrated method of teaching in Kenyan secondary schools.

Keywords: teachers' attitudes, integrated method, teaching oral literature, Uasin-Gishu county, Kenya.

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