second language structures, the disadvantage is that it is not productive with proficient learners. The difference between deductive and inductive approaches for teaching/learning grammar is that, in deductive approaches, the students are introduced with the name of the tense and its rules, while in inductive ones, they must discover them. Choosing an approach or another, deductive or inductive, should take into consideration the learners’ level of knowledge of L2. A proficient learner could easily recognize a grammatical structure, something that a beginner might find as a difficult task. Some opinions rely on the consideration that a mix of deductive and inductive teaching is useful in classrooms, while other opinions consider this a confusing process for young learners, for example. Thornbury made a list of advantages and disadvantages of using a deductive approach in classroom: Advantages Disadvantages – It’s time-saving – Grammatical rules are explained, making their comprehension easy – It can be easily applied on students’ level of knowledge – It confirms students’ expectation about learning – It permits teachers to deal with language issues as they come, not to anticipate them – A grammatical presentation from the beginning of the lesson may not be welcomed – The use of scientific terminology may not be understood – The teacher’ s role diminishes students’ interaction and involvement in the teaching process – It builds the idea that knowing the grammatical rules is the only way to learn the language Thornbury adds along with Grammar-Translation, Audio-Lingual, Communicative Approach for teaching grammar, the Direct Method and Natural Approach. Unlike Grammar-Translation Approach, the Direct Method puts focus on oral skills. Although there was a syllabus of grammatical structures, explicit grammar teaching was not allowed. Learners were supposed to acquire it as the way they did with the native language’s. Krashen’s Natural Approach demanded learners to be exposed to “comprehensible input”. Like the Direct Method, the Natural Approach considered that learners were able to gain>