10/25/2014

Deductive Approach VS. Inductive Approach

Deductive or Inductive? Which approach do you think is efficient for teaching grammar?

46 comments:

Sonja Li said...

This is Sonja Li.
Inductive approach is known as a “discover learning,” which means that students discover grammar rules while working through grammar exercises. Deductive approach is known as a “rule-driven learning,” which means that a teacher explains grammar rules to the students.
I think deductive approach is efficient for teaching grammar because grammar is not the only subject in class. We as second language learners have to learn four skills in four hours a week. Hence, it is more efficient to present the grammar rules first, followed by examples in which the rule is applied. For example, when I teacher my students “the present perfect tense,” I will explain that it is made up of the auxiliary verb 'have or has' and the past participle. It is used to express an action which has begun in the past and continues into the present moment. Furthermore, it can be added a period of time with the preposition “for,” the past time with the preposition “since,” and the past tense sentence with the conjunction “since.”

傑瑞 said...

I think it is very good to learn from "deductive learning" at first, and gradually when we are more used to use the second language, we will neuturalize the language. So it will become similar to our first language.
So, I think two methods are equally good, depending on how the instructor instruct the students.

Sonja Li said...

This is Sonja Li.
Inductive approach is known as a “rule-discover learning,” which means that students discover grammar rules while working through grammar exercises. Deductive approach is known as a “rule-driven learning,” which means that a teacher explains grammar rules to the students.
I think deductive approach is efficient for teaching grammar because grammar is not the only subject in class. We as second language learners have to learn four skills in four hours a week. Hence, it is more efficient to present the grammar rules first, followed by examples in which the rule is applied. For example, when I teach my students “the present perfect tense,” I will explain that it is made up of the auxiliary verb 'have or has' and the past participle. It is used to express an action which has begun in the past and continues into the present moment. Furthermore, it can be added a period of time with the preposition “for,” the past time with the preposition “since,” and the past tense sentence with the conjunction “since.”

ruby lin said...

I personaly think that teachers should teach with " inductive theory" because i believe students can learn by doing it which is relevant to our previous section-- experience learning. Students tend to get bored when you are forming and telling them all the rules at the beginning of the class, they will find more interest if we present all the different funny sentences for examples with the noticeable rules. They then will automatifally function with their brain and also brain storming why the sentences are having some in common.In that way, they will more likely to find out the answer themselves or asking teachers for help and this will be the moment to teach them why. Ruby Lin

Nancy Hsieh said...

I think that deductive approach is efficient for teaching grammar because it starts with a clear rule and is followed by examples to apply the rule. Teacher can explain grammar with clarity and avoid learners confusing the rule. Learners understand a rule exactly by explanation and don’t need to infer and derive an understanding of the rule. (inductive approach) The process of observation from examples and elicit the rule by teacher may take more time than explanation and lose the point of economy. Teacher should spend more time on checking and monitoring learners understanding or not. Deductive approach usually is associated with Grammar-Translation. Teacher explains usually in the learner’s mother tongue but learners have the possibility, lack of practice the target language. If teacher is good at the both languages, the teacher can overcome the problem. Furthermore many grammar books adopt explanations and exercises so I think that deductive approach can help learner understand and apply grammar rule efficiently.

Betty Yang 598202118 said...

This is Betty Yang I prefer inductive approach. If teacher use this way to teach grammar, students can learn the grammar in the class. Because teachers can easily catch students’ attention, and the grammar rules will be more memorable and meaningful.

Eva Chen 598202261 said...

This is Eva Chen
I like inductive approach way to teach.
it's more easy to make student remember those rules.

Ivy Lu said...

This is ivy.
personally, i think inductive approach is more acceptable for me, in the class, i can learn grammar automatically. And student will pay more attention practice themselves. nowadays, students are more and more passive in speaking in class, and express their opinion. it's hard to find out whether they understand or not. If use this approach maybe can stimulate their learning attitude.

林羽喬Austina yu-ciao Lin said...

Im Austina, I like both of the method.
I think both of them use in different teaching.

Unknown said...

I prefer deductive approach as my teaching method because this approach is direct and much easier for teachers to design their teaching content and material,and students can easily get the idea of what their teacher trying to teach.

張伊瑤Elly 598201097 said...

I think both of these two methods have their advantages, they can be used in different teaching.

Unknown said...

This is Kimi=)
*a deductive approach starts with the presentation of a rule and is followed by examples in which the rule is applied
*an inductive approach starts with some examples from which a rule is inferred
i think the two of approach have different efficient for teaching grammar. but i think deductive approach have many of advantages for teaching grammar:
first, it gets straight to the point, and can therefore be time-saving. many rules - especially rules of form - can be more simply and quickly explained than elicited from examples. this will allow more time for practice and application. second, it respects the intelligence and maturity of many - especially adult- students, and acknowledges the role of cognitive processes in language acquisition. third, it confirms many students' expectations about classroom learning, particularly for those learners who have an analytical learning style.

Elsa Nien-yun Kao said...

I prefer inductive approach, because it starts with some examples form which a rule is inferred. Students can study examples and from these examples derives and understanding of the rule.

Cher Liu said...

I think deductive is more efficient for teaching grammar. Because we can give our students a rule, and give them many different examples; therefore, they can use them to compare this rule through different situations and occasions. In this way, they can realize it more clearly.

Unknown said...

As I have known, the deductive approach is efficient for teaching grammar. However, I prefer the “implicit” instruction, the inductive approach, to the “explicit” instruction, the deductive approach. I think that language learners’ can naturally learn from quantities of examples and become more familiar with the grammatical topics they learn without memorizing grammatical rules and the academic terms. Like learning mother tongue, beginners, young children in particular, are suitable for the inductive approach. I have mentioned that ‘Teaching “grammar in implicit methods can avoid the beginners’ class as carrying a heavy “burden,” such as all parts of speech and parts of sentences’ in the area of the topic “Grammar: to teach or not to teach.”

Jill said...

In both approaches, the students practice and apply the use of the grammatical structure, yet, there are advantages and disadvantages to each in teaching English grammar.
The deductive approach can be effective with students of a higher level, who already know the basic structures of the language, or with students who are accustomed to a very traditional style of learning and expect grammatical presentations. The deductive approach however, is less suitable for lower level language students, for presenting grammatical structures that are complex in both form and meaning, and for classrooms that contain younger learners.
The advantages of the inductive approach are that students can focus on the use of the language without being held back by grammatical terminology and rules that can inhibit fluency. The inductive approach also promotes increased student participation and practice of the target language in the classroom, in meaningful contexts. The use of the inductive approach has been noted for its success in EFL/ESL classrooms world-wide, but its disadvantage is that it is sometimes difficult for students who expect a more traditional style of teaching to induce the language rules from context. Understanding the disadvantages and advantages of both approaches, may help the teacher to vary and organize the EFL/ESL lesson, in order to keep classes interesting and motivating for the students.

Unknown said...

Compared with the deductive approach at local public primary school, the inductive approach used at some private American-style bilingual schools in Taiwan has been proved and reached in more efficient level for their ESL students. Instead of spending a large quantity of time working on the inductive approach, most public school teachers use a traditional way and believe that it is the easiest and fastest one to make their student being master through the deductive approach to gain efficiency when teaching grammar within limited hours during school time. Unlike private school students’ American style of education, public school students have few, most of the time even no, opportunities to do the exercises in the class time. Thus, they are likely to have insufficient time and chances to cultivate, deepen, and widen their imagination and creativity as well as develop interests and motivation in the process of learning English. They can learn grammar efficiently but cannot speak English fluently at the same time. As one of the students went through such a system, I felt disappointed about school English education as it has been not positive change in the past twenty years. If one approach cannot be helpful for students before then, how can it be different and even better for the students now?

Unknown said...

This is jade Lin.
We can see deductive approach is a method which is a rule that followed by examples in which the rules has already applied within the samples. On the other hand, inductive approach is a method with some examples that from which a rule is inferred. Take an example; if you are in a foreign country and you are told that the people here they usually kissing each other’s cheeks to show their greeting, and you do the same. That’s a sample of deductive approach, which is what we called “followed by the book.” In the contrast, if you are in a foreign country and you start to copy what they do from their behavior and greeting. That will be a sample of inductive approach, which is a method drive yourself to find the similarities and differences on your own.

However, as my personal opinion. if we see it with the prospective of English beginners, they cannot use deductive approach as their methods of learning. The reason is that they can only do what they have been told, but they have no idea why they should do so. On the contrast, they are suitable using the method of inductive approach to learn as a beginner. After all that's easier for them to find out the similarities by themselves, and find out the certain patterns which followed by the grammar rules etc....

Unknown said...

This is Aster Chen

Personally, I prefer deductive approach. Basing on the rules teacher giving, students can develop it to different kinds of sentence. However,the way of teaching is according to students. If inductive approach is more efficient to them, I will use inductive way to teach them.

Unknown said...

This is Amanda Ho
In my opinion, deductive approach is efficient for teaching grammar. Deductive Approach is give the example first, and teach students the correct grammar. According to use deductive approach to teach students grammar is the easy to let students understand the rules of grammar. After they understanding the rules, they will make the correct sentences easily.

Unknown said...

This is Nancy Shih
In my opinion, I know that inductive approach is give students samples that they can find the rules in it. And another one, deductive approach is give the samples first. Students can understand the rules, then they application into the sentence.
I prefer inductive approach. Because students can start from the samples. They are already have some references that make their sentences easily.

Unknown said...

This is Vivian Lee
I think is better to use deductive apporach. It is more efficent for students. They can have correct ideas on grammar rules. For me, I think different levles students can use different apporach.
If we has no time, deductive apporach is a better idea.

Unknown said...

It's Micky
I think both deductive & inductive approaches are feasible for teaching grammar. It depends on how you want your students learn it and what kind of grammar you teach. For example, to teach tense, I think it's favorable to use inductive approach. Have students learn the tense from a story, a dialogue, for a drama and then explicit students' general understanding of the pattern of the tense, and at the end, the teacher explains the grammar rules.
However, to teach part of speech, deductive approach is preferred, the teacher had better explain what a noun, a verb, an adjective mean, then students follow teachers' instructions to identify part of speech among sentences.

Unknown said...

This is Yoyo.
I prefer the deductive approach, because deductive approach is emphasis the logical. I think that when we learn something new, and we will need to understand the rule or method, then, we could know how to follow it. However, deductive can help the thought of logical, and I think that it is more efficient than another one.

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Unknown said...

4. This is Sharine Wu.
I prefer the inductive approach.
Inductive means using known facts to produce general principles. Every student has already learned more or less grammar so far. Now, I decide to assign them to give a presentation about the definition of the word "get". I don't want them to check the dictionary immediately. I demand them to write down what they have known about the word and organize them. They analyze the specific data and ideas in their mind, and make them logical. That is the inductive approach. In my opinion, it is more effective and memorable for students to study, other than just giving students a general idea and let them seize a rotten driftwood on the sea level.

Unknown said...

I am Carol. I prefer the induction approach. By this approach, we have to observe some examples then try to find some different phenomenon. According to observation, we can draw conclusion and some rules. Through this method, we can train to be perceptive and find the rules by ourselves. It is helpful to memorize the rules because we get it by our observation.

Vita Li said...
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Vita Li said...

This is Vita Li

I prefer the deductive approach, because it’s a conventional way to teach grammar in the ESL classroom, and rules are given before the illustration of examples, and learners are required to memorize these rules so that they can apply them to make meaningful sentences.

Vita Li said...
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Anonymous said...

This is Natalie Chen 503062602

To start with, I prefer inductive approach.

First, I like learning grammar from examples. Examples allows us to be more familiar with grammar. Second, by following the examples, we gradually see the rules in sentences. Third, by following rules, we can observe and absorb the knowledge of grammar.

To conclude, personally I would like to learn grammar inductively because just by following the rigid rules is too narrow minded and easy to forget. I would not mind learning grammar deductively because at some point of our learning process we all learn things by remembering the rules first. However, I am sure inductive learning is more efficient.

Unknown said...

I think that inductive approach is more efficient for teaching grammar, because there are more sentence to compare, and then we can get more idea to realize, also we can make the correct sentence from those examples.

Unknown said...

I am Yvette.
I prefer to use inductive approach.
I think learning the grammar from several sentences is more easy to understand the way of grammar.
And also we can learn to make sentences from the central grammar.

Unknown said...

This is Sylvia Wu 503061036.
I prefer to use inductive approach.
I think we can get more clear ideas because it is based on the assumption that knowledge of grammatical rules should be acquired through exposure to samples of a sequence particular construction.

Unknown said...

i'm Bobo 503061543
I think inductive is more useful for me. Because i often learn from the sentences and articles to get understand the meaning or rules of English. Also it can let me realized more difference between the grammar.

Unknown said...

Hi, it's Blaire. 503061696
I prefer inductive learning approach. Just like our mother tongue "Chinese". We use it directly without thinking about whether the grammar is right or not. So do we speak English. I think we should not place too much emphasis on grammar itself, but should focus more on whether we convey the correct information to others.

E said...

This is Eloise. My perception of comparing Deductive Approach to Inductive Approach, I’d prefer the latter. Inductive Approach starts from giving examples without met the rules, we exposure to a massive amount of input the regularities of sentences. With an enough amount of example sentences, we can easily find out the grammar rules by ourselves, moreover, to memorize the patterns better than rote learning grammar.

Ray said...

Deductive approach is for instructor to teach rules and let students to apply those in making sentences. On the other hand, inductive approach is to give sentences and find out the rules within the sentences. I believe inductive approach will be more useful and efficient because it can let students to think about the pattern of the grammar structure and when he/she finds out the pattern, the impression will be deeper than just telling the rules to the students.

Unknown said...

Maggie503061270
This is Maggie. I think inductive is more helpful for me. Because we can use some games or close our life ways to infer the results that students more understand and more flexible to use. Also, when you come to class, you can't feel boring about learning. And you can more creative in learning.

Unknown said...

翁韋翔 Wyatt Weng 502062124
I like both approaches. Deductive approach gives you what the grammar is upfront. Inductive approach leaves deep memories in students mind.
Some grammar is easier to teach with inductive approach due to their simple and recognizable patterns. However, with difficult contents, I would prefer to be taught by deductive approach.

Winnie's journal said...

林昀 Winnie Lin 502062071
Hi there this is Winnie. As a Taiwanese student, I usually understand the regularity of grammar rules at first, and then get some ideas from the examples which teacher gives us. Therefore, I am more used to learning from the deductive rule than inductive rule.

Unknown said...

Yuna Yang 502062306
To me, I like to learn grammar form inductive apporach. I think examples are the most important part of learning grammar. As far as I'm concerned, example means something related to daily life.

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000000 said...

i think the inductive approach is easily for a new learner, the deductive approach is helpful and useful for a advanced leaner.(from:501151693,Yei-Yei)
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Unknown said...

This is Jeff:
I think that deductive approach is the most efficient approach to teach grammar because i think that grammar is not the only one issue we need to learn as a English learners. It may be efficient for teachers to teach grammars first and then
students try to make sentences or try to do some practice by applying these grammars.

I think that in this way, students may be more impressed by the grammar rules.
As for me, I love to be taught the rules and then I try to do something by applying
all the rules. I think this approach can decrease time.

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