ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF DEDUCTIVE AND INDUCTIVE APPROACHES

Deductive approach
Advantages
- lesson is straight to the point
- many rules can be more explicitly and quickly explained
- allow more time for practice and application
- time-saving.

Disadvantages
- quite formal - encourages the belief that learning a language is simply a case of knowing the rules
- passive and boring lesson
- teacher-centered (one way communication)

Inductive approach
Advantages
- meaningful, memorable and lesson – students discover themselves
- stimulate students’ cognitive
- active and interesting lesson
- students are actively involved in the lesson - attentive and motivated
- student-centered (2 ways communication)

Disadvantages
- time-taking
- sometimes can frustrate students who would prefer simply to be told the rule – learning
styles/inability to discover themselves
- students may reach false conclusions on grammar rules
- place heavy demands on teachers in planning a lesson - need to select and organise the data
carefully