Developed by Georgi Lozanov in the 1970s, suggestopedia is an innovative language teaching method that promises faster learning through relaxation, music, classroom environment, and the teacher's authority. Some key features include using music and art to relax students, attractive and organized classrooms, and the teacher as the central information source. The method aims to create a dynamic, fun atmosphere to make input optimal for language acquisition. While it benefits from relaxation and music, critics argue suggestopedia is not practical and excludes comprehension and problem solving.

1. Suggestopedia
Herman Díaz
Nicolás Aranda
Alvaro Cisternas

2. ORIGIN & DEFINITION
Developed by the Bulgarian psychologist,
Georgi Lozanov in the 1970s
Suggestopedia is an innovative method that
promises great effective language learning
results. Lozanov claimed that by using this
method we can teach languages approximately
three to five times as quickly as conventional
methods.

3. • The name of Suggestopedia is from the words
“suggestion” and “pedagogy.”
• concerned with systematic study of the non-rational
and/or non-conscience influences” that human
beings are constantly responding to.
• The method also draws the importance of relaxation
of mind for maximum retention of material.

4. MAIN FEATURES OF SUGGESTOPEDIA
• The use of music or arts to relax learners.
• The furniture, decoration and the arrangement of the
classroom.
• Teacher’s authority. The teacher plays a central role and
he/she is the source of all information.

5. APPLING THIS METHOD IN THE
CLASSROOM
• THREE MAIN FACTORS
• An atractive classroom
• Dynamic and ludic atmosphere
• A relaxed semblance

6. IN THE CLASSROOM
• Introduction
• Concert session (active, passive)
• Elavoration
• Production

7. Requirements to make input optimal
• Must be Comprehensible
• Relevant/Interesting
• Filter Level
• Not grammatically sequenced
• Quantity
• Tools for conventional management

8. EXAMPLE

9. ADVANTAGES AND CRITISISM
Advantages
• Through Suggetopedia we learn to trust the power of the mind.
• We also learn that deliberately induced states of relaxation can be
valuable at times in the classroom.
• We can also benefit from the use of music to get students sit back and
relax.
Critics
• It is not a practical method as teachers face the problem of the availability
of music and comfortable chairs.
• Lozanov refers in a number of occasions to the importance of
memorization, excluding any reference to comprehension and creative
problem solving.