Suggestopedia is a teaching method developed by Georgi Lozanov that aims to reduce stress and anxiety to maximize learning. It creates a relaxed environment through the use of music, classroom decorations, and a nurturing student-teacher relationship. Key aspects include relaxing students before lessons, experiencing lesson material, and role-playing or discussions after to reinforce learning. While it may accelerate learning and create a calm setting, suggestopedia can be difficult to implement in large classes and requires financial resources for music and decorations. Teachers should choose methods suited to their students' needs.

1. Suggestopedia
By Ahmad Ashour and Hidaya AlBaddawi

2. • Introduction :
• What is suggestopedia? 🤔
• Suggestopedia is a teaching
method developed by the Bulgarian
psychotherapist Georgi Lozanov. It
is used mostly to learn foreign
languages. Suggestopedia is a
portmanteau the words
“suggestion”and “pedagogy”.

3. •Philosophy :
• Georgi Lozanov of Bulgaria developed
the “Suggestopedia” method from a
personal belief that most people fill only
a fraction of their brains’ capacity during
a lifetime of learning. He believed that
adults set up affective obstacles to
learning by being afraid to try new
experiences or by being preoccupied or
nervous.

4. • Genral informationabout suggestopedia : 🔍
• Suggestopediais based on modern understandingof
how human brain works and how we learn most
effectively.
• This method focuses on developinga relaxing
environment
that students can feel calm and relaxed in.
• relationshipbetween students and teacher in this
method is like a child parents relationship. 👨‍🏫
• The teacher play baroque music in the background,
which helps to provide a nice ambiance for the learning.

5. • The three phases of suggestopedia are:
1- pre-session students are informed of the topic
And materials of the lesson.
2- Sessions students experience the lesson.
3- Post-session- various elaborations of the topic are
used to encourage assimilation of the text such as role
playing or monologues.
*Note : In thisuniquemethodof teaching theteacher hasan
extraordinary amount of psychological influenceovertheir students.

6. Advantages and disadvantages :
• Advantages :
1- Suggestopediamethoduse musicduringthe process
of learning.
Thatcreates relaxedstatesfor mind,the mainconcept
of suggestopediamethodis thatusingmusicduringthe
processof learning.
2- Suggestopediamethods havedifferentclasssetting(
beside usingmusicalsodecoratethe class withposters
or somethingthat keeps the studentmindrelaxedAnd
help to focuson lesson.suchas Posters, flowers,
aquarium,vocabulary,rangechairs intoa semi circle
shape)

7. • Disadvantages:
1- Using music in classroom, beside that it’s considered as
an advantage it can also be an disadvantage because some
people can’t study or concentrate in noisy classes ( some
students say that they can’t divide their minds into two
sides to the music and to the lesson, they prefer to study in
quite places.)
2- Suggestopedia method is difficult to be practiced in
development countries such as Indonesia or jordan 😅 Due
to the large number of students ( also large numbers of
students a,re hard to control), on the other hand it can be
applied in European countries such as Netherlands.
3- the last disadvantage is decorating the class part or class
setting, decorating class will need much money and high
cost that some countries can’t afford.

8. • Conclusion 💡:
• Any teachingmethod has advantagesand
disadvantages,it’s our responsibilityas teachers
to be able to choose the most suitable method
for our students accordingto their age and level
of intelligence.
• Suggestopediais a good teachingmethod
because the memorizationprocess can be done
25 times faster than conventionalmethods