Tobias Owiti

Contextualized Grammar Teaching: Oral Literature and Classroom Teaching of English Grammar in Secondary Schools in Kenya Tobias Owiti

classroom teaching of grammar in secondary schools has over the years been a challenge to most language teachers partly because most books present the teaching of grammar in terms of rules that the learner is expected to memorize and reproduce in communication. This approach fails to provide the learner with contexts in which grammatical items should be used. This book therefore recommends the use of oral literature in the teaching of grammar. In doing this, it presents teachers conceptualization of the use of oral literature in the teaching of grammar. It also answers the question whether teachers employ oral literature genres in the teaching of grammar. Strategies exploited by teachers in grammar teaching are also looked into as well as challenges that teachers encounter in the use of oral literature in the teaching of grammar. Curriculum developers and teachers of English language would definitely find this book invaluable.