SUGGESTOPEDIA

Group 3 AMIR AIMAN AMIRRUL ZARITH AHMAD FAUZI

What is Suggestopedia
a teaching method which is based on a modern understanding of how the human brain works and how we learn most effectively. developed by the Bulgarian doctor and psychotherapist Georgi Lozanov. The term 'Suggestopedia', derived from suggestion and pedagogy, is often used loosely to refer to similar accelerated learning approaches.
Difference: atmosphere: music, comfy chairs

 It was originally applied mainly in foreign language teaching Lozanov has claimed that by using this method a teacher's students can learn a language approximately three to five times as quickly as through conventional teaching methods.

Key Elements of Suggestopedia

A rich sensory learning environment (pictures, colour, music, etc.) A positive expectation of success and the use of a varied range of methods: dramatized texts, music, active participation in songs and games, etc.

arrangement of the classroom

emphasis on memorization of vocabulary pairs

The Main Characteristics of Suggestopedia

use of music in the classroom

teachers authority

The Principles of Suggestopedia

1) The goals are to learn at accelerated pace, a foreign language for everyday communication by tapping mental powers, overcoming psychological barriers. 2) Teacher has authority, commands trust and respect of students. Teacher desuggests negative feelings and limits to learning. 3) Students learn in a relaxing environment. They choose a new identity in the target language and culture. They use texts of dialogues accompanied by translation and notes in their native language. Each dialogue is presented during two musical concerts, once with the teacher matching his voice to the rhythm and pitch of the music while students follow along. The second time, the teacher reads normally and students relax and listen. 4) At first, teacher initiates all interaction and students respond only nonverbally or with a few words in target language that they have practiced. Eventually, students initiate interaction. 5) Great importance is placed on students feelings, in making them feel confident and relaxed, in desuggesting their psychological barriers.

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Language is one plane, nonverbal parts of messages are another. Culture includes everyday life and fine arts.
Vocabulary is emphasized in some explicit grammar. Students focus on communicative use rather than form. Reading and writing also have place. Translation clarifies dialogues meaning. Teacher uses native language more at fist than later when necessary. Students normal in class performance is evaluated. There are no tests, which would threaten relaxed environment.

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10) Errors are not immediately corrected. Teacher models correct forms later during class.

Suggestopedia Lesson
Lessons using Suggestopedia as a foreign teaching method involves:
translating texts into the learners native language
explaining grammar structures explicitly practicing in an imitative way through role plays

Learning Activities Used in Suggestopedia

Besides imitation, question and answers, and role play, suggestopedia assumes a lot of listening activities. The listening activities are part of the so called "pre-session" phase. Music is used in order to support the suggestive effect.

Active Concert and Passive Concert

these methods are used as an aid in powerful effect in accelerated language learning
Active Concert the active concert creates an emotional association with a dramatic piece of music. The new language material is introduced while playing the music. The music rises and falls, and the voice goes with it. Passive Concert (often Baroque music)

the student listens to the same text but this time the voice lies under the music and the student is asked to listen to the music and not the voice. The voice should engage the unconscious mind while the music engages the conscious mind.

Advantages
A comprehesible input based on dessugestion and suggestion principle
students can lower their affective filter. Suggestopedia classes, rooms with comfortable chairs, a practice that may also help them relaxed. Teacher can do numerous other things to lower the affective filter.

Authority concept

Students remember best and are most influenced by information coming from an authoritative source, teachers.

Double-planedness theory

It refers to the learning from two aspects. They are the conscious aspect and the subconscious one. Students can acquire the aim of teaching instruction from both direct instruction and environment in which the teaching takes place.
Suggestopedia encourages the students to apply language more independently, takes more personal responsibility for their own learning and get more confidence. Peripheral information can also help encourage students to be more experimental, and look to sources other than the teacher for language input. For example, the students can make some sentences using the grammatical structure placed on the classrooms wall, describe a particular place in an English speaking country by looking at the poster on the wall, etc. When the students are successful in doing such self-activities, they will be more confident.

Peripheral learning

Disadvantages
Environment limitation
The use of hypnosis Infantilization learning
Most schools in developing countries have large classes. Each class consists of 30 to 40 students. One of the problems faced in utilizing this method is the number of students in the class. There should be 12 students in the class (Adamson, 1997).

Some people say that suggestopedia uses a hypnosis, so it has bad deep effects for human beings. Lazanov strongly denied about it.

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 thay are mature.