suggestopedia method

1. SUGGESTOPEDIA
By: Safa’a AlShraideh
Prepared for: Approaches and methods
in language teaching class.
Dr: Dina Al-Jamal

2. SUGGESTOPEDIA
• Developed in the 1970s
by the Bulgarian
psychiatrist- educator
Georgi Lozanov (1926-
2012).
• Based on a modern
understanding of how the
human brain works and
how we learn most
effectively.

3. SUGGESTOPEDIA
Conspicuous characteristics:
Decoration Furniture
Arrangement of the classroom
Music
Authoritative behavior of the teacher.

4. FUNCTIONS OF MUSIC:
By Gaston (1968)
1- To facilitate the
establishment of personal
relations.
2- Increased self-esteem
through self satisfaction.
3- To use the unique
potential of rhythm to
bring order.

5. Theory of learning:Theory of language
Suggestion is the heart of
suggestopedia.
•The importance of using the
language as a whole
meaningful texts.
•Suggestopedic courses direct
the students to acts of
communication.
•Language to be learnt as a
material.

6. OBJECTIVES OF
SUGGESTOPEDIA:
-To deliver advanced conversational
proficiency quickly.
-The main focus of suggestopedia is the
understanding and creative solution of problems.

7. THE SYLLABUS
-30 days, ten units. Each class of four hours
a day, six days a week.
-The focus in each unit is a dialogue of 1200
words or so, with the list of vocabulary and
grammatical commentary

8. TYPES OF LEARNING AND
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
•Listening activities concern about the text and text
vocabulary of each unit. (pre-session phase).
• Questions and answers (1st session)
• Listening the story in a ¨special way¨ (2nd session)
• Role – plays (3rd session)
• Imitation (3rd session)

9. Teachers’ roleLearners’ role
Create situations which make
the learner suggestible (
comfortable atmosphere).
Encourage their own
“infantilization’.
Encourage positive reception
and retention by the learner.
Students volunteer for
suggestopedic course.

10. THE ROLE OF INSTRUCTIONAL
MATERIALS
• Direct support materials such as text and tape.
• Indirect support materials including classroom
fixtures and music.
• The text is organized around 10 units and each unit
should be governed by one single idea.
• The text book should have emotional force, literary
quality and interesting characters.

12. PROCEDURE
The four-hour language class has three parts:
1) Oral review section:
- Learned material
- Students sit in circle
- Discussion proceeds as a seminar
- Micro-studies vs Macro-studies
2) Presentation of new material
- New dialogue is analyzed in terms of grammar,
vocabulary and content.
- Teacher’s attitude is vital for the success of learning.

13. PROCEDURE
3) Concert session (Heart of the method)
-All conversation stops and music is played until the mood of the
music is reached.
- The teacher starts reading the new text while students follow
him/her in their textbooks.
- By the end of the first part of the concert, everyone remains in
silence.
- The second part is played before the teacher begins to read
again.
- Students close their textbooks and listen to the teacher’s
reading.
- At the end, students leave the room silently with only one
homework: read the lesson again before going to bed and once
more before getting up in the next morning.

15. CONCLUSION
•Learning is facilitated by environment
and music.
•Teacher is the authority.
•Psychological barriers are removed.

16. THE END