Suggestopedia
- 1. UNIVERSIDAD PEDAGÓGICA EXPERIMENTAL LIBERTADOR INSTITUTO PEDAGÓGICO DE CARACAS DEPARTAMENTO DE IDIOMAS MODERNOS Student: Karina Clemente
- 2. Georgi Lozanov The Creator of Suggestopedia What is language learning? Lozanov (1978) assumes that the only major linguistic problems in the language classroom are memorization and integration. If the students remember the words and patterns of the language and integrate them into their personalities, the students have acquired the language and the teacher has done all that needs to be done .
- 3. Suggestibility Four factors considered essential: Relaxed and comfortable learning environment . The use of soft Baroque music “ Desuggestion”
- 4. ( 1 ) Classroom Set-up Emphasis is placed on creating a physical environment that does not "feel" like a normal classroom. (2) Peripheral Learning Students can absorb information "effortlessly" when it is perceived as part of the environment, rather than the material "to be attended to“ (3) Positive Suggestion Teachers appeal to students' consciousness and subconscious in order to better orchestrate the "suggestive" factors involved in the learning situation Typical Techniques
- 5. 4) Visualization Students are asked to close their eyes and visualize scenes and events, to help them relax. (5) Role-play Students pretend temporarily that they are someone else and perform a role using the target language. (6) First Concert Teacher does a slow, dramatic reading of the dialog synchronized in intonation with classical music. Typical Techniques
- 6. Typical Techniques (7) Second Concert Students put aside their scripts and the teacher reads at normal speed according to the content, not the accompanying pre-Classical or Baroque music - this typically ends the class for the day. (8) Primary Activation Students "playfully" reread the target language out loud, as individuals or in groups. (9) Secondary Activation Students engage in various activities designed to help the students learn the material and use it more Spontaneously.
- 7. The Suggestopedic Lesson Introduction Concert sessions (active and passive), Development of the syllabus introduced in the concert sessions Summary
- 8. The Role of the Teacher in Suggestopedia “ The motor of the suggestopedic machine" (suggestive stimuli and environmental suggestive stimuli). The teacher has to put students in the state of mind called "concentrative psychorelaxation . Teachers can use all the interactive communicative activities.
- 9. Conclusions This environment is not found in the language teaching classrooms. Teachers can use some techniques such as playing soft music and playing games.