Suggestopedia is a teaching method developed by the Bulgarian psychotherapist Georgi Lozanov.

3. Suggestopedia, one of the humanistic
approaches was developed in the 1970’s by the
Bulgarian educator Georgi Lozanov. It is based
on the idea that people, as they get older,
inhibit their learning to conform to the social
norms and in order to reactivate the capabilities
they used as children, teachers have to use the
power of suggestion

4. Stimulates the whole person
Undoes blocks
Goes rapidly forward
Gives creative solution
Encourages relaxation
Strengthens self-image
Talks to all the senses

5. Optimizes learning ( 極優化）
Propagates talent （繁殖、開發）
Enhances learning
Dramatises material
Includes pictures, music and movement
Addresses the whole person

6. Suggestopedia, is also known as Desuggestopedia.
Suggestopedia is a specific set of learning recommendations
derived from Suggestology.
Suggestopedia is developed by the
Bulgarian Psychiatrist-Educator
Georgi Lozanov.
The most important characteristics of Suggestopedia are

7. • The teacher uses both verbal and non-verbal ways
to communicate the learning hypothesis: (X) I am
doing this, so (Y) I am learning the language; (X)
I did, so (Y) I can use the language. This is a
necessary and continuous part of suggestopedic
teaching.

8. • Suggestopedia sees the negative suggestions (Oh,
it is too late for me, I am too old,” or “How can I
remember that amount? Nobody can!”) from the
social-suggestive norm as inhibiting human
potential and believes teachers can free their
students’ natural potential by replacing existing
• Desuggestopedia (the name of this method
changed from Suggestopedia to Desuggestopedia
to emphasize the importance on desuggesting
limitations on learning),

9. Teaching speaking for young language learners (YLLs) is an
interesting and challenging duty for teachers for some
considerations. In one hand, YLLs are individuals of very early
age who are interested in many new things such as a foreign
language, English. Young language learners (YLLs) are defined
here as being school pupils up to around 13 years old
(Hasselgreen, 2005). In this level, young learners seem to have
the same proficiency in speaking that is novice level. The
characteristic of novice level is the students’ ability to
communicate minimally with learned material and oral
production consists of isolated words and perhaps a few highfrequency phrases essentially no functional communication
ability (Brown, 2001).
Related to this, Wells (1991:52-53) cited in Hammound (1997)

10. The emphasis at this level its on the code as code.
Becoming literate, according to this perspective, is
simply a matter of acquiring those skills that allow a
written message to be decoded into speech in order to
ascertain its meaning and those skills that allow a spoken
message to be encoded in writing, according to the
convention of letter formation, spelling and punctuation.
At the performative level it is tacitly assumed that
written messages differ from spoken message only n the
medium employed for communication.

11. On the other hand, teaching YLLs is
regarded as the most difficult thing to
do in a second language classroom by
some teachers. Since YLLs have little
or no prior knowledge of the target
language.

12. • Teacher’s goals:
Accelerate process of
learning everyday
lang; reducing
psychological barriers
Roles: teacher as
authority
figure..embodies trust,
respect, easily
persuasive
• Process: comfortable,
relaxing; students choose
“new” identities; whole
brain used-; feelings
strongly acknowledged,
positive reinforcement;
• 2 phases:
Receptive-Activation

13. Teacher’s role

14. Abdelhamid

15. 2-The use of music

16. 3-Peripheral Learning
4-Free Errors environment

17. 5-Homework
6-Music, drama and art

23. a.
Advantages
As a particular method, suggestopedia offers some benefit for its use in t
second language classroom for YLLs. There are some benefits in utilizin
suggestopedia:
1.
A comprehesible input based on dessugestion and suggestion
principle
By using this teaching method, YLLs can lower their affective filter.
Suggestopedia classes, in addition, are held in ordinary rooms with
comfortable chairs, a practice that may also help them relaxed. Teacher
do numerous other things to lower the affective filter. According to Kha
(1989) cited in Xue (2005) activities that allow students to get better
acquainted with each other may help lower anxieties and make students
adopt new names for the duration of the language course may have a sim
effect.

24. 2.
Authority concept
Students remember best and are most influenced by information
coming from an authoritative source, teachers.
3.
Double-planedness theory
It refers to the learning from two aspects. They are the conscious
aspect and the subconscious one. YLLs can acquire the aim of
teaching instruction from both direct instruction and environment
in which the teaching takes place.

25. 4.
Peripheral learning
Suggestopedia encourages the students to apply language
more independently, take more personal responsibility
for their own learning and get more confidence.
Peripheral information can also help encourage students
to be more experimental, and look to sources other than
the teacher for language input. For example, the students
can make some sentences using the grammatical
structure placed on the classroom’s wall, describe a
particular place in an English speaking country by
looking at the poster on the wall, etc. When the students
are successful in doing such self-activities, they will be
more confident.

26. b.
Disadvantages
It is not fair to analyze only from the benefit aspects.
Suggestopedia also has limitation since there is no single
teaching method that is chategorized as the best based on
some consideration such as: the curriculum, students
motivation, financial limitation, number of students, etc.
The main disadvantages of suggestopedia are as follow:

27. 1.
Environment limitation
Most schools in developing countries have large classes.
Each class consists of 30 to 40 students. One of the problems
faced in utilizing this method is the number of students in the
class. There should be 12 students in the class (Adamson,
1997).
2.
The use of hypnosis
Some people say that suggestopedia uses a hypnosis, so it
has bad deep effects for human beings. Lazanov strongly
denied about it.
3.
Infantilization learning
Suggestopedia class is conditioned be child-like situation.
There are some students who do not like to be treated like
this as they think that thay are mature.

29. Techniques
Relaxing
Peripheral
Classroom Set- Learning
up
(posters)
Positive
Suggestion
(music)
Visualization
Role-Play
New Identity

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