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Desuggestopedia

The document provides an overview of Suggestopedia, an educational method developed by Georgi Lozanov. Some key points of Suggestopedia include using suggestion, relaxation, and a supportive environment to optimize learning. Suggestopedia relies on the teacher's authority and uses techniques like infantilization, rhythmic presentation, and a decorated classroom to reduce psychological barriers to learning. The goal is to develop students' conversational proficiency through activities like role plays and dialogues.

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Desuggestopedia

The document provides an overview of Suggestopedia, an educational method developed by Georgi Lozanov. Some key points of Suggestopedia include using suggestion, relaxation, and a supportive environment to optimize learning. Suggestopedia relies on the teacher's authority and uses techniques like infantilization, rhythmic presentation, and a decorated classroom to reduce psychological barriers to learning. The goal is to develop students' conversational proficiency through activities like role plays and dialogues.

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(DE)SUGGESTOPEDIA

INTRODUCTION

 Founded by Bulgarian psychiatrist-educator Georgi Lozanov in 1978


 It is an affective-humanistic approach, an approach in which there is respect for
students’ feelings. Learning is facilitated in an pleasant, comfortable environment.
The more confident the students feel, the better they will learn.
 The approach is based on the power of suggestion in learning; the notion being that
positive suggestion would make the learner more receptive and, in turn, stimulate
learning. Lozanov holds that a relaxed but focused state is the optimum state for
learning. In order to create this relaxed state in the learner , teachers should promote
THEORY OF LANGUAGE

 Unlike other methods and approaches, there is no apparent theory of


language that Lozanov articulated and no obvious order in which items of
language are presented.
 Lozanov refers to the importance of experiencing language.
 He notes that «the students not to vocabulary memorization and acquiring
habits of speech, but to acts of communication»
THEORY OF LEARNING

 Suggestion is at the heart of the theory of learning underlying Suggestopedia.


Lozanov claims that what distinguishes his method from hypnosis and kind of
mind control is that these other forms lack «a desuggestive-suggestive sense»
and «fail to create a constant set up access to reserves through concentrative
psycho-relaxation.»
 The reason for inefficient learning is that we set up psychological barriers to
learning. This method involves «desuggesting limitations to learning»
SIX PRINCIPLES

 There are six principal theoretical components through which desuggestion and suggestion operate and that
set up access to reserves.
 1. Authority
 2. Infantilization
 3. Double-planedness
 4. Intonation
 5. Rhythm
 6. Concert Pseudo-Passiveness
AUTHORITY

 People are most influenced by information coming from an authoritative


source. Self-confidence, personal distance, acting ability, and a highly
positive attitude give an authoritative air to a teacher.
INFANTILIZATION

 Teacher-student relation like that of parent to child. 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-PLANNEDNESS

 The learner learns not only from the effect of direct instruction but also 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. Both intonation and rhythm are coordinated with a musical
background. The musical background helps to induce a relaxed attitude, which
Lozanov refers to as concert pseudo-passiveness. This state is felt to be optimal
for learning, in that anxieties and tension are relieved and power of concentration
for new material is raised.
OBJECTIVES

 To deliver conversational proficiency quickly.


 Mastery of lists of vocabulary pairs.
 Promoting students to set such goals for themselves.
 To motivate more of students' mental potential to learn and which obtained by
suggestion.
SYLLABUS

 The central focus of each unit is a dialogue consisting of 1,200 words or so,
with an accompanying vocabulary list and grammatical commentary. The
dialogues are graded by lexicon and grammar. There is a pattern of work within
each unit and a pattern of work for the whole course.
TYPES OF LEARNING AND ACTIVITIES

 Learning activities used in the method include imitation, question and answer,
and role play.
 The types of activities more original to Suggestopedia are listening activities,
which concern the text and text vocabulary of each unit.
TYPICAL FEATURES OF SUGGESTOPEDIA
INSTRUCTION

 It integrates dialogues, communicative scenarios, and translation.


 Peripheral learning occurs which students unconsciously acquire information from the surroundings.
 Pyschological barriers to learning are desuggested by the teacher.
 The teacher uses dramatization.
 Errors are dealt with indirectly.
 Vocabulary and grammar are presented, but they aren’t the main objective of a lesson.
 Materials such as handouts, tape-recorders are used.
 Classroom activities based on dialogues, including Q&A, games and song.
ROLE OF THE TARGET LANGUAGE, NATIVE LANGUAGE, AND
GRAMMAR

 Role of the Target Language: The goal is communicative proficiency in the


target language, so use of the language for communication is stressed.
 Role of The Native Language: Use of the native language is minimized.
 Role of Grammar: Teacher may call attention to certain grammatical structures
in a dialogue or reading passage, but the focus is on communication.
 Assessment: No tests or homework assignments, evaluation is carried out based
on teacher’s observations.
ROLE OF THE TEACHER AND THE
LEARNER

TEACHER’S ROLE LEARNER’S ROLE


 Show absolute confidence  Students should be committed to the class.
 Display fastidious conduct in manners and dress.  The student should be relaxed.
 Teacher should possess proper classroom  The learners should have “faith in the system and
management skills and observe the process. accept that they are in a childlike situation where
 Modest enthusiasm should be maintained. they follow the teacher.
 They may assume a new identity and take a new
name, this meant to reduce anxiety.
ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES

ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
 Learning Environment  Lack of flexibility
 Can arouse students’ interests  Lack trust to teachers
 Potential to memorize  Over-emphasized of language use
 The emphasis of interaction  Absence of tests
 The treatments to students’ mistakes  Differences characteristics between students
ACTIVITY

 Presentation: Teacher helps the students to relax. The classroom will be decorated with posters on a
whiteboard or materials should be projected by projector.
 First Concert Session(active): In the active part, the teacher reads his part with intonation while the selected
music is playing. Depending on the situation, the students also read the text with the teacher, they only speak
when the teacher stops at certain times.
 Second Concert(passive): The teacher asks the students to listen to the reading once more at a normal pace,
focusing attention on the content of the text.
PRONUNCIATON OF ED

 Sarah woke up early, the sun pouring through the apartment window. She stretched lazily
and placed her feet one by one on the floor. Rising from the bed, she tiptoed through the
boxes which she placed last night on her desk. Then, she put a bottle of water into the boiler.
Waiting, she glanced over the kitchen table. Grateful, she had a whole day to enjoy. She
remembered the water in the boiler. She scooped and poured some coffee into it and
searched for the button. She sighed and knew that she had to wash the dishes and she did,
also she dried them with the help of the dishcloth.

 stretched placed glanced scooped searched


 Tiptoed opened remembered poured sighed dried

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