Functional-Notional Approach
SUGGESTOPEDIA – A WONDER APPROACH TO LEARNING FOREIGN LANGUAGES?
Prep. univ. Gabriela Mihăilă-Lică Abstract
Suggestopedia, one of the strangest “humanistic approaches” was developed in the 1970’s by the Bulgarian educator Georgi Lozanov. It is based on the idea that people, as they get older, inhibit their learning to conform to the social norms and in order to reactivate the capabilities they used as children, teachers have to use the power of suggestion. The suggestopedic approach is said to increase enormously the ability of students to learn, to remember, and to integrate what they learn into their personality. This paper presents the sequences of a suggestopedic session, the role of the teacher and opposite points of view regarding the use of the approach. The conclusion is that, despite a lot of inconveniences, suggestopedia has elements that can be used successfully with all sorts of learners, some of these elements being employed by the teachers and professors at the Foreign Language Centre and at the Land Forces Academy.
Suggestopedia, also named Superlearning (this is a registered trade mark of Superlearning, Inc., USA) [1], is considered to be the strangest of the "humanistic approaches" and it was developed in the 1970s by Georgi Lozanov, a Bulgarian educator. Dr. Georgi Lozanov says that as we get older we accept social norms and adjust our personalities to conform to them (Lozanov, 1978). One result is that we inhibit our learning to conform to these outside limits. The capabilities that we used as children are set aside and no longer used but they are preserved as functional reserves. According to Lozanov people can re-integrate these reserves into the active personality by means of suggestion, which increases enormously the ability to learn, to remember and to integrate what they learn into their personality. Lozanov (1978) assumes that the only major linguistic problems in the language classroom are memorization of the words and patterns of
Prep. univ. Gabriela Mihăilă-Lică Abstract
Suggestopedia, one of the strangest “humanistic approaches” was developed in the 1970’s by the Bulgarian educator Georgi Lozanov. It is based on the idea that people, as they get older, inhibit their learning to conform to the social norms and in order to reactivate the capabilities they used as children, teachers have to use the power of suggestion. The suggestopedic approach is said to increase enormously the ability of students to learn, to remember, and to integrate what they learn into their personality. This paper presents the sequences of a suggestopedic session, the role of the teacher and opposite points of view regarding the use of the approach. The conclusion is that, despite a lot of inconveniences, suggestopedia has elements that can be used successfully with all sorts of learners, some of these elements being employed by the teachers and professors at the Foreign Language Centre and at the Land Forces Academy.
Suggestopedia, also named Superlearning (this is a registered trade mark of Superlearning, Inc., USA) [1], is considered to be the strangest of the "humanistic approaches" and it was developed in the 1970s by Georgi Lozanov, a Bulgarian educator. Dr. Georgi Lozanov says that as we get older we accept social norms and adjust our personalities to conform to them (Lozanov, 1978). One result is that we inhibit our learning to conform to these outside limits. The capabilities that we used as children are set aside and no longer used but they are preserved as functional reserves. According to Lozanov people can re-integrate these reserves into the active personality by means of suggestion, which increases enormously the ability to learn, to remember and to integrate what they learn into their personality. Lozanov (1978) assumes that the only major linguistic problems in the language classroom are memorization of the words and patterns of
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