Suggestopedia

Suggestopedia

1. Suggestopedia, also known as Desuggestopedia, is a method developed by the Bulgarian psychiatrist-educator Georgi Lozanov. Suggestopedia is a specific set of learning recommendations derived from Suggestology

2. A most conspicuous feature of Suggestopedia is the centrality of music and musical rhythm to learning. Suggestopedia thus has a kinship with other functional uses of music, particularly therapy

3. strengths

   • Authority: people are influenced more when things the say a person sure of herself.
   • Infantilization: In the child’s role the learner takes part in role playing, games, songs, and gymnastic exercises that help the older student regain the self-confidence, spontaneity and receptivity of the child
   • Double-planedness: The learner learns not only from the effect of direct instruction but from the environment in which the instruction takes place. The bright decor of the classroom, the musical background, the shape of the chairs, and the personality of the teacher are considered as important in instruction as the form of the instructional material itself
   • Intonation, rhythm, and concert pseudo-passiveness: Varying the tone and rhythm of presented material helps both to avoid boredom through monotony of repetition and to dramatize, emotionalize, and give meaning to linguistic material.

4. The objectives of Suggestopedia are to deliver advanced conversational proficiency quickly. It bases its learning claims on student mastery of prodigious lists of vocabulary pairs and, indeed, suggests to the students that it is appropriate that they set such goals for themselves.

5. weaknesses

   • The teacher is the only one who gives the knowledge and does not allow the students to make their own knowledge.

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