Desuggestopedia

Desuggestopedia

Fabrízia CostaKassia Toscano

The originator of The originator of

DesuggestopediaDesuggestopedia

Georgi Lozanov.Georgi Lozanov.

A Bulgarian psychiatrist A Bulgarian psychiatrist and educator.and educator.

”” Learning is a matter Learning is a matter of attitude, not of attitude, not aptitude.”aptitude.”

Georgi Lozanov(1988),Foreign Language Teacher's Suggestopedic Manual

The meaning of desuggestopedia

suggest => desuggestThis method puts importance on “desuggesting limitations on learning.”

We set up psychological barriers to learning and thus we do not use the full mental powers we have; in order to use our reserved capacity, the limitations we think we have need to be “desuggested.”

The goal of the teachers

The goal of the teachers using the teaching method is to help students eliminate and overcome the barriers to learning and increase their communicative ability.

Classroom set-up

Armchair

Light is comfortable

Everything is bright and colorful

Posters

Music

The teacher speaks confidently;The teacher leads the class in various activities involving the dialog, for example, question-and-answer, repetition, and translation;The teacher should integrate indirect positive suggestions (there is no limit to what you can do) into the learning situation.

Peripheral learningWe perceive much more in our environment than that to which we consciously attend.

“When there is a unity between conscious and subconscious, learning is enhanced.”

Fine arts

One of the ways the students’ mental reserves are stimulated is through integration of the fine arts-music, drama, or paintings.

Enjoy your learning

The teacher gives the students the impression that learning is easy and enjoyable. It’s desire that the students achive a state of ‘infantilization`so they will be more open to learning.

Choosing a new identity

This enhances students’ feeling of security and allows them to be more open. Video 1

Positive suggestions

Direct suggestion Indirect suggestion

Active concert Teacher will introduce a story as related in the dialog and call the students’ attention to some particular grammatical points that arise in it, she reads the dialog in the target language. Music is played. The teacher begins a slow, dramatic reading, synchronized in intonation with the music. The music is classical and the teacher’s voice rises and falls with the music.

Passive concert

In the phase, the students are asked to put their scripts aside. They simply listen as the teacher reads the dialog at a normal rate of speed. The teacher is seated and reads with musical accompaniment.

Primary activation

The students playfully reread the target language dialog out loud, as individuals or in groups. Students are asked to read the dialog in particular manner: sadly, angrily, and cheerfully.

Creative adaptation

The students engage in various activities designed to help them learn the new material and use it spontaneously. Activities particularly recommended for this phase include singing, dancing, dramatizations, and games.

Video 2 – reading phonetic

To accelerate the process of learning a foreign language for everyday communication

To desuggest learners’ psychological barriers

To activate learners’ ‘paraconscious’ part of the mind

1.What are the goals of teachers who use Desuggestopedia?

2.What is the role of the teacher? What is the role of

students?The teacher’s role: authority—being confident and trustable security—affording a cheerful classroom atmosphere The students’ role: relaxed—following the teacher’s instruction easily

role play—enjoying in the new identity freely

3.What are some characteristics of the

teaching/learning process?Classroom atmosphere—decoration&posters

A new name and occupation—to dispel fear or anxiety

Handout—for advanced students

No test, no assignment

Conversation with translation in music—to activate the ’whole brain’ of the students

Games,songs,role play—to strengthen the material

4.What is the nature of student-teacher interaction? What is the

nature of student- student interaction?

The teacher initiates interactions in two way—

1.the teacher to a group of students 2.the teacher to only one student

The students respond through— 1.nonverbal actions 2.a few target language

student- student interaction—role play

5.How are the feelings of the students dealt with?Relaxed--psychological barriers are desuggested.

Confident--the target language comes naturally.

--Success is obtainable.

Secure--assumption of a new identity

6.How is language 6.How is language viewed?viewed?

How is culture viewed? How is culture viewed?Language itself is the first of two planes in the two-plane process of communication.Nonverbal factors also influence the linguistic message.The use of the fine arts is important in Desuggestopedia classes.

7.What areas of language are7.What areas of language are emphasized? emphasized?

What language skills are What language skills are emphasized? emphasized?

Vocabulary is emphasized.Grammar is dealt with explicitly but minimally.Speaking communicatively is emphasized.

8.What is the role of the 8.What is the role of the students’ native students’ native

language?language?

Native language is used to make the meaning of the dialog clear.As the course proceeds, the teacher uses the native language less and less.

9.How is the evaluation 9.How is the evaluation accomplished?accomplished?

Evaluation usually is conducted on students’ normal in-class performance, not through tests.

10.How does the teacher 10.How does the teacher respond to student errors?respond to student errors?

Errors are corrected gently, with the teacher using a soft voice.

Video 3 - conclusion

Conclusion

Advantage

Learning Environment

Thinking highly of students’ feeling

Can arouse students’ interests and potential to memorize

Advantage

The emphasis of interaction

The treatments to students’ mistakes

1 – Now you`re going to thing about some disadvantages of this method.

2 – Have you ever used this method or anything related to it in your classes? (yes) How was it? (No) would you like to use it?

Do you believe that the environment of the class is important in the language teaching-learning process?

Disadvantage

Lack of flexibility

Lack trust to teachers

Over-emphasized of language use

DisadvantageAbsence of tests

Differences characteristics between students

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Comment

Have a positive effects on English Learning

Open a new page for English teaching

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~Thank You ~