Adopting a Deductive Approach to Grammar Teaching.

Abstract

Learning grammar has the greatest important in language teaching and learning that iswhy has a multiple and different approaches of teaching and learning, some scholarshave studied grammar deductively, and others have tried to study it inductively. This study aims to investigate the effects of using a deductive approach in teaching grammar. It also aims to explore and discover the learners’ perspectives towards learning grammar through the use of that approach and how it provides them to learn and master the grammatical patterns. Still, a comparison between the deductive and the inductive approach was made in this research. More, it attempts to shed light on the obstacles and the difficulties which are faced by learners in grammar learning. Therefore,a case study was conducted at Ain Skhouna Secondary School in Saida. In order to investigate this study, we have carried out the investigation by submitting two questionnaires; the teachers’ questionnaire and the students’ questionnaire. The results revealed that teaching grammar depends on some specific methods, and the teacher is the decision maker at this case to select the appropriate method whichenhance the learners’ mastery of grammar rules, and through this investigation the using of the deductive method was enough to serve the learners’ interest and needs.