Suggestopedia

SuggestopediaGd Mrning

by: Bela Negara, Septiarani Pramasari, Satya Permadi, Ika Pradnyana, Gede Laskar, and Sony WirawanEnglish Education Department

©2011

Background

Suggestopedia

A learning method that developed by Bulgarian psychiatrist-educator

Georgi Lozanov.

Suggestopedia

Specific set of learning

recommendations derived from Suggestology

Describes is a science concerned with the systematic study of the no rational and/or no conscious influences that human beings are constantly responding to (Stevick 1976:42).

The Most Conscious Characteristics of Suggestopedia

1. Decoration

2. Furniture and arrangement of the

classroom

3. The use of music

4.The authoritative behavior of the

teacher

Suggestopedia

The Method has a somewhat mystical air about it partially because it has few direct links with established learning or

educational theory in the west, and partially because of its arcane

terminology and neologisms, which one critic has unkindly called a “package of pseudo-scientific

gobbledygook” (Scovel 1979:258)

Suggestopedia can perhaps be best understood as one of range of theories that purport to describe how

attentiveness is manipulated to optimize learning and recall.

A most conspicuous feature of Suggestopedia is the centrality of music and musical rhythm to learning.

Suggestopedia thus has kinship with other functional uses music, particularly therapy. One of the earliest attested uses music therapy is recorded in the Old

Testament of the Bible.

Three Functions of Music in Therapy

Based on Gaston (1968)

To facilitate the establishment and

maintenance of personal relations

To bring about increased self-esteem

through increased self-satisfaction

in musical performance

To use the unique potential of rhythm

to energize and bring order

The last function seems to be the one that Lozanov calls upon in his use of music to relax learners as well as to structure, pace, and punctuate the presentation of

linguistics material.

Approach

Theory of Language

Theory of Learning

Approach – Theory of Language

LOZANOV emphasize on

“whole meaningful text”as acts of communication

“lighthearted text” to be motivational

LOZANOV emphasize on

“narrow clinical concept of hypnosis as a kind of static, sleep like, altered state of consciousness“

that His method is different from hypnosis and other forms of mind control

Approach – Theory of Learning

6 PRINCIPALS:

AUTHORITY

The most of people remember best and are most influenced by information coming from an authoritative source

Approach – Theory of learning

Infantilization

Authority also used to suggest a teacher-student relation like parent and children

Approach – Theory of Language

Double-Planedness

The Learner direct instruction

environment

Double-Planedness

The bright décor of the classroom

the musical background

the shape of the chair

the personality of the teacher

important in instruction as the form

of the instructional material itself

Intonation, Rhythm, and Concert pseudo-passiveness

Vary the tone and rhythm of presented

material

helps

avoid boredom through monotony

repetition

dramatizeemotionaliz

e

give meaning to linguistics material


intonation and

rhythm coordinated with

musical background


musical background

helps to induce

relaxed attitude

concert pseudo-

passiveness

concert pseudo-

passiveness


create equilibrium between the active and passive state, establishing a new way to think

activeness as it is required in the learning process.

Aims to


The type of music is critical

to learning success

The music use in Superlearning

make body relaxed and the mind became

alert

extremely im

portant

Design

Suggestopedia

deliver advanced

conversational proficiency

quickly

Aims to

Design

LozanovMain aim of

teaching

memorization

understanding and creative solution of

problems

Design

Student and

teacher

memorization of

vocabulary

important goal of

suggestopedic method

The Syllabus

Lozanov

Only gives the example of the

syllabus

The Syllabus

It’s still classic

innovative

It’s not concern about vocabulary or

grammar.

The Syllabus isn’t structural

It emphasizes on the

communication elements

The Syllabus

There should be the dialogue and the translation

And there is a list of the vocabulary, and the list of the dialogue

The Syllabus

The whole text will cover all the

language aspects

Types of Learning and Teaching Activities

Activities more original to Suggestopedia

are the listening activities, which concern the text and text vocabulary of each unittypically part of the "pre-session phase,"

which takes place on the first day of a new unit.


The students first look at and

discuss a new text with the teacher In the second reading,

students relax comfortably in reclining

chairs and listen to the teacher read the

text in a certain way


In the process, there is a musical

instrument as a background

Make the student suggestible

Learner role

expected to be committed to the

class and its activities

must forgot mind-altering and other

distractions immerse themselves in the procedures of the

methodmust not try to figure out, manipulated or study the

material presented but must maintain a pseudo-passive state, in which the material rolls over and through them

Learner role

Bancroft 1972

Students are expected to the absolute authority of the teacher and in part by giving themselves over to activities and techniques designed to help them regain the self-confidence, spontaneity, and

receptivity of the child

role playing, games, song, and gymnastic

exercise

Example

Cinderella

The students have to act like in Cinderella

story

Teacher roles

to create situation in which the learners is most suggestible to

encourage positive reception retention by the learner

1. Show absolute confidence method

2. Display fastidious conduct in manners and dress3. Organize properly strictly observe the initial stages of the teaching process- this includes choice and play of music, as well as punctuality4. Maintain a solemn attitude towards the session.5. Give tests and respond tactfully to poor papers.

6. Stress global rather than analytical attitudes towards material

7.Maintain a modest enthusiasm

Teacher rolesLozanov

Teacher rolesstevick (1976)

there are certain styles of presentation of material that are

important, intricate, and inaccessible

teachers have to prepare to be initiated into the method by stages

and that certain techniques are withheld until such times as the

master teacher feels the initiate is ready

Teacher roles

Bancroft (1972)

Lozanov

Suggest that teachers are expected to be skilled

in acting, singing, and psychotherapeutic

techniques

thought teacher will spend three to six

months training in these field.

Materials

direct indirect

primarily text and

tape

classroom

fixtures and

music

The Role of Instructional Materials

The text book

should have emotional force, literary quality, and

interesting characters.


Language problems should be introduced in a way that does not

worry or distract students from the content


The learning environment plays such a central role,

that the important elements in Suggestopedia

The environment (the indirect

support materials)

The appearance of the classroom

(bright and cheery)

The furniture (reclining chairs

arranged in a circle)

The music (baroque largo,

selected for reasons

discussed previously)

ProcedureBancroft (1972)

The First

Oral review section

a learned material is used as the basis for discussion by the teacher and twelve students in the class and sit in the circle

micro-studies

macro-studies

role playing, wider-ranging, and

innovative language construction

grammar, vocabulary, precise questions

and answers

Procedure

In the second

Presented and discussed

Looking over a new dialogue and its native language translation

and discussing any issues

Grammar, vocabulary, or content

Lozanov

All conversation stops for a minute or two,

and the teacher listen to the music coming from a tape

recorder

At the end, the students silently leave the room.

They are not any homework on the lesson they have just

had except for reading

The students follow the text in their textbooks

where each lesson is translated into the mother tongue

The third

Procedure

and then begins to read or recite the new text,

his voice modulated in harmony with the musical phrases

Suggestopedia has probably both the most enthusiastic and the most critical response of any of the so-called new methods. Having acknowledged that three are techniques and procedures in Suggestopedia that may prove useful in a foreign language classroom. And yet from Lozanov’s points of view, this air of science is what gives Suggestopedia its authority in the eyes of students and prepares them to expect success. Perhaps, then, it is not productively to futher belabor the science/non-science, data/double-talk issues and instead, as Bancroft and Stevick have done, try to identify and validate those techniques from Suggestopedia that appear effective and that harmonize with other successful techniques in the language teaching inventory.

Conclusion

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