Inductive vs. Deductive Grammar Instruction and the Grammatical Performance of EFL Learners
Learning a foreign language offers a great challenge to students since it involves learning different skills and subskills. Quite a few number of researches have been done so far on the relationship between gender and learning a foreign language. On the other hand, two major approaches in teaching g...
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Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch
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| description | Learning a foreign language offers a great challenge to students since it involves learning different skills and subskills. Quite a few number of researches have been done so far on the relationship between gender and learning a foreign language. On the other hand, two major approaches in teaching grammar have been offered by language experts, inductive and deductive. The present study examines which method of teaching grammar is more fruitful for Iranian male and female students. For this purpose, 150 freshman students, 110 females and 40 males, majoring in English were selected from all available students at Abadeh and Shiraz Azad universities. All the subjects took the NTC's grammar test prior to the instruction as pre-test. Then, they were divided into two groups and were taught grammar inductively and deductively in each group for one semester. At the end of the instruction, the same test was taken as post-test. The comparison between the students' pre and post-test indicated that there was a significant improvement in their knowledge of grammar. By the way, through a two-way ANOVA, it was found out that males learned grammar better when they were taught inductively and females showed a better performance when they were taught deductively. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-06083f2f788e4d05b42ae141709ba0ec2022-12-21T18:18:18ZengIslamic Azad University, Tabriz BranchJournal of Applied Linguistics2008-84342538-16952008-02-011Inaugural Issue113524175Inductive vs. Deductive Grammar Instruction and the Grammatical Performance of EFL LearnersFatemeh BehjatLearning a foreign language offers a great challenge to students since it involves learning different skills and subskills. Quite a few number of researches have been done so far on the relationship between gender and learning a foreign language. On the other hand, two major approaches in teaching grammar have been offered by language experts, inductive and deductive. The present study examines which method of teaching grammar is more fruitful for Iranian male and female students. For this purpose, 150 freshman students, 110 females and 40 males, majoring in English were selected from all available students at Abadeh and Shiraz Azad universities. All the subjects took the NTC's grammar test prior to the instruction as pre-test. Then, they were divided into two groups and were taught grammar inductively and deductively in each group for one semester. At the end of the instruction, the same test was taken as post-test. The comparison between the students' pre and post-test indicated that there was a significant improvement in their knowledge of grammar. By the way, through a two-way ANOVA, it was found out that males learned grammar better when they were taught inductively and females showed a better performance when they were taught deductively.http://jal.iaut.ac.ir/article_524175_0e2561e75af4a0a5eb4e18569fe1f0c6.pdfInductive Grammar TeachingDeductive Grammar TeachingForeign Language LearningGenderKnowledge of Grammar |
| spellingShingle | Fatemeh Behjat Inductive vs. Deductive Grammar Instruction and the Grammatical Performance of EFL Learners Journal of Applied Linguistics Inductive Grammar Teaching Deductive Grammar Teaching Foreign Language Learning Gender Knowledge of Grammar |
| title | Inductive vs. Deductive Grammar Instruction
and the Grammatical Performance of EFL Learners |
| title_full | Inductive vs. Deductive Grammar Instruction
and the Grammatical Performance of EFL Learners |
| title_fullStr | Inductive vs. Deductive Grammar Instruction
and the Grammatical Performance of EFL Learners |
| title_full_unstemmed | Inductive vs. Deductive Grammar Instruction
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| title_short | Inductive vs. Deductive Grammar Instruction
and the Grammatical Performance of EFL Learners |
| title_sort | inductive vs deductive grammar instruction and the grammatical performance of efl learners |
| topic | Inductive Grammar Teaching Deductive Grammar Teaching Foreign Language Learning Gender Knowledge of Grammar |
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