Advantages Of Inductive Teaching In Teaching

CHAPTER 1

Introduction “Grammar… teaches us how to make use of words; that is to say, it teaches us how to make use of them in the proper manner… to be able to choose the words which ought to be placed, we must be acquainted with certain principles and rules and these principles and rules constitute what is called Grammar.” (Cobbett, 1819)

In the light of the above statement we can easily understand the importance of the basic grammar rules and structures of any language we are going to learn, so that we can use it in our speech and writings successfully in proper manner. Usually two main techniques are being used by educators to teach grammar of any language, they are deductive and inductive techniques. Both the deductive and the inductive teaching techniques have their own advantages and disadvantages and which technique should be used depends on different aspects, such as the nature of the language being taught and the preferences of the teacher and learners. However, the educators perhaps usually considered that an alternative use of both techniques is best suited for the EFL classroom.

It seems better here that before we proceed further we should have the basic understanding of the difference in inductive and deductive reasoning, then it will be easy for us we to understand that how this applies to grammar teaching and learning. In deductive reasoning we come from top to down, it means that we move from a more general concept to a more specific concept. That is we begin with a broader and general conception or proposition, and then narrow down to specific conception or proposition. On the other hand in the inductive reasoning we move from down to top, and thus we move from the more specific to the more general, and reach to the broader and common hypotheses and