Teaching Grammar Inductively - (Literacy Strategy Guide)
Teaching Grammar Inductively - (Literacy Strategy Guide)
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Grammar Awareness
Discovery Technique:
Teaching Grammar Inductively
G ram m ar is a n essential This guide discusses the
c o m p o n e n t o f lan guage learning. advantages of teaching
To enable learners t o use a variety grammar inductively and
of lang uage items accurately illustrates how teachers
a n d ap pr op r i a t e ly in different can help learners become
contexts, it is i m p o r t a n t t o help more actively involved in
t he m co nnect g r a m m a r items language ‘rule search.’
a n d structur es with t he
comm unicative f unct ions they
perform. In d o i n g so, learners will
ga in a b et t e r u nd e r s t a n d i n g o f ti on
how, why a n d when t o use
pa r t ic u lar la ngu age items a n d
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awareness o f how t he items make
m eaning in t he texts.
PRONOUN ADVERB
AWARENESS
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Table o f Contents:
Background/Research Base 2
Purpose/Benefits 3
Description/Procedure 5
How Teachers Can Make
t h e Strategy Work 6
Applications Across
t he Cur riculum 7
Grammar Awareness
Discovery Technique:
Teaching Gra m ma r Inductively
The approach involves the learners rules (Gollin, 1998). That is why
in detecting, or noticing patterns and some researchers used the term
working out a ‘rule’ for themselves inductive as ‘rule search.’
(known as ‘guided discovery’) before
they practice the language. More Inductive approach is the reverse
specifically, the inductive approach process of deductive approach that
exposes learners to examples of proceeds from the presentation
language use, immersing them in the of a rule by a teacher to the
use of the target language items provision of examples in which
and then prompting them to the rule is applied followed by
generalize the patterns of the language practice that learners can
language. It engage in. The deductive
involves inferences from the particular approach happens when a
instances to general) and discovering teacher presents
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Some reasons why language teachers • the rules and structures students
need to use this approach to discover are often more valid,
teaching grammar: relevant and authentic than in a
deductive approach, as they can be
• it moves the focus away from the drawn from real use of English;
teacher as the giver of knowledge • it reflects the acquisition
to the learners as discoverers of it; process that children learn by,
• it can be particularly effective i.e., being in contact with the
with low-level and with certain language and using it, then
types of young learners. It finding rules and applying them
enables these learners to focus to new contexts;
on use, not complex rules and • language teachers are able to
terminology; respond better to the needs of
• it allows utilization of authentic their learners, and support and
material from a wide range encourage new learning styles and
of sources to present the strategies.
target language;
Description / Procedure
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How Teachers Can Make one of the textual
The Strategy Work enhancement techniques or
their combination.
1. The inductive approach to English 3. Make sure that he/she does not
grammar teaching can also be done highlight many different forms as
through activities in which students it may distract the learners’
compare two texts on the same topic or attention from meaning.
situation but which differ in their use
4. Use strategies to keep learners
of particular grammatical features.
attention on meaning.
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