Presenting New Language

It is known that every teacher should know how to present new language items to learners. As we are future teachers we should know how to present them.  This article shows what benefits it can offer us when we need to present something new to our students.

     In this article there are given two approaches for the differing techniques we can use – deductive and inductive. While reading these two ways of presenting new language I understood that learners are independent in the inductive way, and they are dependent in the deductive way. Because the inductive way makes students work on their own. In this situation the teacher is only guide for presenting new language items. But does this way support our students’ learning fully?

     However, the deductive way makes learners work with the teacher, and the lesson is controlled by the teacher. But does it give learners the chance to develop their strategies and learning styles?

     I think that the inductive way of presenting new language is difficult for our learners. For instance, when we do something in the inductive way, it takes too much time and hard work. Sometimes we do not understand what we are doing exactly.

     In order not to make any difficulties in learning something we should mix these two ways. So that we can keep balance in presenting new language. Or as it is written in the article we can start with a deductive approach, and then move on to a more inductive way of learning.