— Overview
Deductive learning, the account says, works from a principle and adds knowledge. In Western philosophy and scientific thought, it has been an important intellectual tool since Aristotle. Cohen and Manion (1980) are cited: deductive reasoning was accepted without doubt from Aristotle until the Middle Ages, when Francis Bacon reversed the movement from principle to reason. In grammar teaching, the deductive approach is defined as “rule driven”: the rule is first stated clearly, then examples that embody it are given, and students practice making sentences by applying the rule. The inductive approach, the account says, formed later. Bacon is cited for induction as a way of adding to our knowledge of words; induction leads to principles, rules, and generalization. In grammar teaching, the inductive approach is defined as “rule discovery”: the teacher presents language examples, and students arrive at an intuitive sense of a set of rules. It is also defined as “learning by analogy, not by analysis.” The deductive method, designed as an academic, traditional way to teach Latin and Greek, is still valued, the account says.
It is strong for useful but complex grammar, easy and brief to teach, and effective when comparing the grammar of a first language and a target language. Many learners, especially adults, want to know a rule quickly and accurately, and so tend to prefer a deductive method (Yoon Bo-gyeong, 2001). The inductive approach has this feature: a rule the learner discovers is more meaningful than a rule that is merely presented. The effort of discovery, the account says, sinks more deeply into cognition, and the learner takes a more active part and is self-motivated. An outline names a choice of teaching method, and the application of PPP and TTT models, but those sections are not filled in. No steps of PPP or TTT are invented. Theses from 2011, 2008, 2006, and 2005 are listed; findings are not drawn from them.
— Contents and key concepts
Rule driven, and rule discovery
Deductive learning, the account says, works from a principle and adds knowledge. In Western philosophy and scientific thought, it has been an important intellectual tool since Aristotle. Cohen and Manion (1980) are cited: deductive reasoning was accepted without doubt from Aristotle until the Middle Ages, when Francis Bacon reversed the movement from principle to reason. Those citations are left as the account leaves them.
In grammar teaching, the deductive approach is defined as “rule driven”: the rule is first stated clearly, then examples that embody it are given, and students practice making sentences by applying the rule. The inductive approach, the account says, formed later. Bacon is cited for induction as a way of adding to our knowledge of words; induction leads to principles, rules, and generalization. In grammar teaching, the inductive approach is defined as “rule discovery”: the teacher presents language examples, and students arrive at an intuitive sense of a set of rules. It is also defined as “learning by analogy, not by analysis.”
Who prefers which method, and what is left unfilled
The deductive method, designed as an academic, traditional way to teach Latin and Greek, is still valued, the account says. It is strong for useful but complex grammar, easy and brief to teach, and effective when comparing the grammar of a first language and a target language. Many learners, especially adults, want to know a rule quickly and accurately, and so tend to prefer a deductive method (Yoon Bo-gyeong, 2001). The inductive approach has this feature: a rule the learner discovers is more meaningful than a rule that is merely presented. The effort of discovery sinks more deeply into cognition, the account says, and the learner takes a more active part and is self-motivated.
An outline names, further, a choice of teaching method, and the application of PPP and TTT models. Those sections are not filled in the text. No steps of PPP or TTT are invented. Theses by Choi Yeo-jin (2011), Jeong Sun-gyu (2008), Lee Yu-im (2006), and Yang So-yeong (2005) are listed. Findings are not drawn from those studies.
Sources
- an account contrasting rule-driven, deductive grammar teaching with rule-discovery, inductive teaching in Korean as a foreign language, citing Cohen and Manion (1980) and Yoon Bo-gyeong (2001), and leaving PPP and TTT models unfilled.
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