Suggestopedia
By the end of this lecture, students
should be able to:
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Develop an awareness about the
history of suggestopedia.
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Recognize the nature of
suggestopedia.
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Define suggestopedia .
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Recognize the methodology of
suggestopedia.
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Identify the advantages and
disadvantages of suggestopedia.
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Form an outline about
suggestopedia.
Objectives
of this
lecture
The History of the Suggestopedia:
Suggestopedia was developed by Bulgarian
psychiatrist–educator Georgi Lozanov
(1982), who wanted to eliminate the
psychological barriers that people have to
learning. It uses drama, art, physical
exercise, and desuggestive–suggestive
communicative psychotherapy as well as
the traditional modes of listening,
speaking, reading, and writing to teach a
second language. He came up with a
method for learning that used relaxation as
a means of absorbing and retaining new
knowledge and material.
The nature of Suggestopedia:
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The classroom atmosphere is crucial.
Creating a relaxed, nonthreatening learning
environment is essential for its success.
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Music played an essential role in his
method.
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Vocabulary, readings, role-plays and drama
are presented with classical music in the
background and comfortable seating. In
this way, students became "suggestible".
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Classrooms are equipped with comfortable
seating arrangements and dim lighting in an
effort to provide an inviting and appealing
environment.
The nature of Suggestopedia:
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The use of the native language is also
allowed, especially to give directions and
to create that welcoming atmosphere.
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As in the ALM, dialogues are employed,
but they are presented in an enhanced
fashion through creative dramatics.
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Based on the belief that how students
feel about learning will make a
difference in the learning process,
Suggestopedia takes into consideration
the affective domain. If the students
feel they can learn, they will.
Definition of Suggestopedia:

Suggestopedia is a teaching method, which
focuses on how to deal with the relationship
between mental potential and learning ability
and it is very appropriate to use in teaching
speaking for young language learners.
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It is one of methods which concerns to
students’ learning style because there are
visual display, audio, and physical
involvements during learning process.
Moreover, it involves emotional meaning in
given the lesson which help students’ better
in memorizing.
The Methodology of Suggestopedia:
1. Presentation:
Presentation is the basis of conducting Suggestopedia in class successfully.
The main aim in this stage is to help students relax and move into a positive
frame of mind, with the feeling that the learning is going to be easy and
funny. Desuggestion and suggestion happen at this stage at the same time.
2. Concert :First Concert
This involves the active presentation of the material to be learnt. Extended
dialogues, often several pages in length, accompanied by vocabulary lists and
observations on grammatical points. Typically these dialogues will be read
aloud to students to the accompaniment of music.
3. Second Concert :
After the readings of these long dialogues to the accompaniment of music,
the teacher will then make use of the dialogues for more conventional
language work. The students, then, make and practice dialogue after they
memorize the content of the materials.
4. Practice
The use of a range of role-plays, games, puzzles, etc. to review and
consolidate the learning.
Advantages of Suggestopedia:
1.
Memorization in learning through suggestopedia would be
accelerated by up to 25 times over that in conventional
learning methods.
2.
Students can acquire the aim of teaching instruction from
both direct instruction and environment in which the
teaching takes place.
3.
Suggestopedia encourages the students to apply language
more independently, takes more personal responsibility for
their own learning and get more confidence.
4.
Students remember best and are most influenced by
information coming from an authoritative source, teachers.
Disadvantages of Suggestopedia:
1.
Environment limitation: One of the problems faced in
utilizing this method is the number of students in the class.
2.
The use of hypnosis: Some people say that suggestopedia
uses a hypnosis, so it has bad deep effects for human beings.
3.
Suggestopedia class is conditioned be child-like situation.
There are some students who do not like to be treated like
this as they think that they are mature.
4.
Current textbooks do not embrace this methodology, thus
making it difficult for teachers to apply the principles in
regular classrooms.
5.
The idea of a teacher reading a long dialogue aloud, with
exaggerated rhythm and intonation, to the accompaniment
of Beethoven or Mozart may well seem ridiculous to many
people.
Application : Typical Techniques:
•The
use of music, role-plays and drama.
•Homework
•Free
is limited.
Errors.
•Peripheral
•Reading
Learning ( indirect Learning).
aloud long dialogues.
•Memorization
of dialogues.
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The End
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