Inductive Vs Deductive

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The first approach is a typical example of deductive way of teaching grammar. The teacher gives an example – sentence and analyses the form, grammatical meaning, function and the rules when it is used. He uses grammatical names. The second approach we can identify as the inductive one. The teacher introduces the context – story, supported by pictures to help the students understands the situation. He tries to elicit some facts from the Ss to make them think. Finally he introduces the target sentence which includes the target structure and then the teacher checks understanding of the structure – Ss may create the rule on he basis of their understanding of the situation and identify the elements of the form for their own or use it s an subconscious knowledge. The main difference between inductive and deductive teaching is that the former one is based on acquisition and the latter on typical language learning. Through acquisition children are expected to ‘pick-up’ the rule, target structure and its form with a real situation in the background. The knowledge that is “picked up” can but doesn’t have to be formulated in definitions and rules. It leads to communicative usage of the language even without being aware of the rules. Language learning provides them with example and rule which they have to memorize. Ss are aware of the rules but during communication they may not be fluent because they need time to consider what form they should use. Deductive approach is considered to be an old fashioned and boring one. In fact in some situations it is an effective way of passing the knowledge. Important advantage of this approach is the fact that it is more time–saving than the other one. The teacher doesn’t have to brother about the context, guidance towards the meaning, he only gives the example and explains the rule. This means also that the teacher
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