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A teacher is teaching grammar to the class. She explains the rules and definitions and then gives examples. What is she practising ?

A teacher is teaching grammar to the class. She explains the rules and definitions and then gives examples. What is she practising ? Correct Answer Deductive method 

The grammar of a language includes all the rules, structures, and pre-defined sets of language usage that are required to be followed during the communication in that specific language. The teaching of English grammar must be done in a way so that it reduces the errors and compels students to use English in their daily life and gives them confidence and satisfaction while using the grammar. 

Key Points

Methods of teaching grammar:

Methods Description
Deductive method
  • Here, in this method, the teacher first provides the set of rules and patterns that are required to be followed in a language. Then the teacher gives the explanations of the rules and presents the examples to justify the explanations.
  • It means the rules are given first, then their explanations, and examples are being learned and understood.
Immersion method
  • In this method, the child absorbs a language in a natural way just like he learns his mother tongue.
  • The child learns language by observing others reading, speaking, writing, and listening.
  • He does not take any pressure about learning vocabulary or rules of a language as he will learn all these gradually and naturally.
Incidental method
  • It is mostly used to teach the children in lower classes. 
  • The child learns a language through the activities of his interest by incidents of his daily life.
  • Like, watching cartoons, talking to his peers, watching a movie, etc.
Inductive method
  • This method includes the observation of certain rules, sets, or patterns of a language.
  • After observing, the learners have to understand and learn the formulas and rules of a language.
  • It basically means that the learner first practices the language in daily life without focusing much on the rules of a language.
  • And then gradually, he becomes aware of the sets and patterns of that language.

 

Hence, it is concluded that the deductive method used by the teacher when she explains the rules and definitions and then gives examples.

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