The Effects of Deductive and Guided Inductive Instructional Approaches on the Learning of Grammar in the Elementary Foreign Language College Classroom
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This study investigates the effectiveness of deductive and guided inductive approaches for teaching grammar in college French classrooms. .Forty-seven secondsemester French students were taught eight grammatical structures: four with a deductive instructional approach and four with a guided inductive instructional approach. A quasiexperimental within-subjects design featuring preand posttests and eight immediate posttreatment quizzes assessed the longand short-term gains in grammatical knowledge for each condition. Results indicated a significant dqerence between participants’ mean immediate test scores favoring the guided inductive approach. Findings of this study also indicated a strong trend infavor of guided induction on the long-term learning of grammatical structures. The results of this study support using a guided inductive instructional approach to teach grammar in the beginning-level foreign language classroom.
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