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The Teaching of Listening and Speaking Skills: Suggestopedia

The document provides an overview of the teaching method known as Suggestopedia. It emphasizes creating a relaxed environment, using Baroque music, and encouraging suggestibility to accelerate the learning process. Key elements include an initial presentation to relax students, two "concerts" where material is read dramatically with music, and practice games to review. Features are a comfortable setting, peripheral learning materials, the teacher's authority, removing psychological barriers, assuming new roles with music, and emphasizing content over structure.

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The Teaching of Listening and Speaking Skills: Suggestopedia

The document provides an overview of the teaching method known as Suggestopedia. It emphasizes creating a relaxed environment, using Baroque music, and encouraging suggestibility to accelerate the learning process. Key elements include an initial presentation to relax students, two "concerts" where material is read dramatically with music, and practice games to review. Features are a comfortable setting, peripheral learning materials, the teacher's authority, removing psychological barriers, assuming new roles with music, and emphasizing content over structure.

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THE TEACHING OF LISTENING

AND SPEAKING SKILLS

SUGGESTOPEDIA
A little background at the method / approach

1. What is the emphasis given to :


The listening skills
The speaking skills
The writing skills
The reading skills
Suggestopedia

Suggestopedia is a teaching method which is based


on a modern understanding of how the human
learn works and how we 
learn most effectively.
The term 'Suggestopedia', derived from suggestion
and pedagogy, is often used loosely to refer to
similar accelerated learning approaches. 
Objectives

The prime objective of Suggestopedia is to tap into more of


students' mental potential to learn, in order to accelerate the
process by which they learn to understand and use the target
language for communication. 
Four factors considered essential in this process were the
provision of a relaxed and comfortable learning enviroment,
the use of soft Baroque music to help increase alpha brain
waves and decrease blood pressure and heart rate,
"desuggestion" in terms of the pyschological barriers learners
place on their own learning potential, and "suggestibility"
through the encouragement of learners assuming "child-like"
and/or new roles and names in the target language.
Key Elements of Suggestopedia

Presentation
A preparatory stage in which students are helped to
relax and move into a positive frame of mind, with
the feeling that the learning is going to be easy and
fun.
First Concert - "Active Concert"
This involves the active presentation of the material
to be learnt. For example, in a foreign language
course there might be the dramatic reading of a piece
of text, accompanied by classical music.
Second Concert - "Passive Review"
The students are now invited to relax and listen to
some Baroque music, with the text being read very
quietly in the background. The music is specially
selected to bring the students into the optimum
mental state for the effortless acquisition of the
material.
Practice
The use of a range of games, puzzles, etc. to review
and consolidate the learning.
Key Features

Here are some of the key features of Suggestopedia:


(1)  Learning is facilitated in an environment that is as
comfortable as possible, featuring soft cushioned seating and
dim lighting.

(2)  "Peripheral" learning is encouraged through the presence in


the learning environment of posters     nd decorations featuring
the target language and various grammatical information.

(3)  The teacher assumes a role of complete authority and


control in the classroom.
(4) Self-perceived and psychological barriers to learners'
potential to learn are "desuggested".

(5)  Students are encouraged to be child-like, take "mental trips


with the teacher" and assume new      roles and names in the
target language in order to become more "suggestible".

(6)  Baroque music is played softly in the background to


increase mental relaxation and potential to   take in and retain
new material during the lesson.

(7)  Students work from lengthy dialogs in the target language,


with an accompanying translation into      the students' native
language.
(8)  Errors are tolerated, the emphasis being on
content and not structure.  Grammar and
vocabulary are presented and given treatment from
the teacher, but not dwelt on.

(9)  Homework is limited to students re-reading


the dialog they are studying - once before they go
to  sleep at night and once in the morning before
they get up.

(10)  Music, drama and "the Arts" are integrated


into the learning process as often as possible.
Using Music in the Classroom
Six years ago researchers reported that people scored
better on a standard IQ test after listening to Mozart.
You would be surprised at how much music can also
help English learners.
Helpful Drawing Hints
"A picture paints a thousand words" - Easy techniques
to make quick sketches that will help any artistically
challenged teacher - like myself! - use drawings on the
board to encourage and stimulate class discussions.
Using Colored Pens
The use of colored pens to help the right brain remember
patterns. Each time you use the pen it reinforces the
learning process.
Brain Gym
The brain is an organ and can be physically stimulated to
improve learning. Use these simple exercises to help your
students concentrate better and improve their learning
abilities.
Suggestopedia: Lesson Plan
Introduction and lesson plan to a "concert" using the
suggestopedia approach to effective/affective learning.

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