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Further Reading

Second Language Teaching and Research

Bachman, L. (1990). Fundamental Considerations in Language Testing. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bialystok, E. and K. Hakuta (1994). In Other Words: The Science And Psychology Of Second-language Acquisition. New York : Basic Books.

Corder, S. P. (1973). Introducing Applied Linguistics. Middlesex, England: Penguin.

Jessner, U. (2008). A DST Model of Multilingualism and the Role of Metalinguistic Awareness. The Modern Language Journal, 92, 270-283.

Norris, J., & Ortega, L. (2000). Effectiveness of L2 instruction: A research synthesis and quantitative meta-analysis. Language Learning, 50, 417-528.

Inductive Learning

Anderson, J. (1990). Cognitive Psychology and its Implications (Third ed.). New York: Freeman.

Holland, J., Holyoak, K., Nisbett, R., & Thagard, P. (1986). Induction: Processes of inference, learning, and discovery. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Schneps, M. (Writer) (1997). Minds of our own: Can we believe our eyes? [Video]. In Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (Producer), Minds of our own: Annenberg/CPB Channel.

Second Language Teaching and Inductive Learning

Bolitho, R., Carter, R., Hughes, R., Ivanic, R., Masuhara, H., & Tomlinson, B. (2003). Ten questions about language awareness. ELT, 57, 251-259.

Decoo, W. (1996). The induction-deduction opposition: Ambiguities and complexities of the didactic reality. IRAL, 34, 95-118.

Kumaravadivelu, B. (2003). Beyond Methods: Macrostrategies for language teaching. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Seliger, H. (1975). Inductive method and deductive method in language teaching: A re-examination. IRAL, 13(1), 1-18.

Shaffer, C. (1989). A comparison of inductive and deductive approaches to teaching foreign languages. The Modern Language Journal, 73(4), 395-403.

Rice, W. (1945). A unit in the inductive teaching of grammar. The Modern Language Journal, 29(6), 465-476.

Wajnrib, R. (1990). Grammar Dictation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Second Language Research and Inductive Learning

Erlam, R. (2003). The effects of deductive and inductive instruction on the acquisition of direct object pronouns in French as a second language. The Modern Language Journal, 87, 242-260.

Haight, C., Herron, C., & Cole, S. (2007). The effects of deductive and guided inductive instructional approaches on the learning of grammar in the elementary language college classroom. Foreign Language Annals, 40, 288-309.

Herron, C., & Tomasello, M. (1992). Acquiring grammatical structures by guided induction. The French Review, 65, 708-718.

Rose, K., & Ng, C. (2001). Inductive and deductive teaching of compliments and compliment responses. In. In K. Rose & G. Kasper (Eds.), Pragmatics in Language Teaching (pp. 145-170). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Takimoto, M. (2008). The effects of deductive and inductive instruction on the development of language learners' pragmatic competence. The Modern Language Journal, 92, 369-386.

Tomasello, M., & Herron, C. (1988). Down the garden path: Inducing and correcting overgeneralization errors in the foreign language classroom. Applied Psycholinguistics, 9, 237-246.

Williams, J. (1999). Memory, Attention, and Inductive Learning. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 21, 1-48.