Suggestopedia
Suggestopedia Background It is also known as desuggestopedia. It was developed by the Bulgarian psychiatrist-educator Georgi Lozanov. It is a specific set of learner recommendations. Among the subliminal influences the fears of the learners that they will be unable to perform and are limited in terms of their ability to learn is the main issue Suggestopedia deals with. It is believed that due to those fears and some other possible negative effects such as the physical effects of the learning environment, learners’ minds cannot process and retain information at the maximum efficiency. This also leads to a lack of confidence and creativity. Thus it is significant to send all kinds of negative effects off the students’ internal environment (the self) and external environment (the classroom) through “desuggestion” by creating a learning atmosphere where all messages have a positive emotional content. In addition to this the memory banks of the learners should be filled with pleasant memories through “suggestion”. It is believed that if this was done, the learners would be able to overcome the barriers to learning and use their maximum potential capacity, which means retention and recall of what has been learnt in the long term. Characteristics
- Decoration of the classroom
- Furniture
- Arrangement of the classroom
- Use of music
- Authoritative behavior of the teacher Memorization in learning by their method seems to be accelerated 25 times over any other conventional method.
Some techniques have been borrowed from raja yoga, from soviet psychology Lozanov started to think that any student can be taught a given subject matter at the same level. He says it is not important if students studies or not outside the classroom. Music functions Music has three functions:
1- To facilitate the establishment and maintenance of personal relations
2- To bring about increased self-esteem through increased
- Decoration of the classroom
- Furniture
- Arrangement of the classroom
- Use of music
- Authoritative behavior of the teacher Memorization in learning by their method seems to be accelerated 25 times over any other conventional method.
Some techniques have been borrowed from raja yoga, from soviet psychology Lozanov started to think that any student can be taught a given subject matter at the same level. He says it is not important if students studies or not outside the classroom. Music functions Music has three functions:
1- To facilitate the establishment and maintenance of personal relations
2- To bring about increased self-esteem through increased
Bibliography: Richards, Jack C, and Theodore S Rodgers. Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press, 2001. Print. ----------------------- 7