Lozanov occasionally notes that the suggestopedic course directs the students not to vocabulary memorization and acquiring habits of speech, but to acts of communication.
Lozanov acknowledges ties in tradition to yoga and Soviet psychology.
techniques for altering states of • raja-yoga consciousness and concentration
the use of rhythmic breathing
III. The theory of learning
Six principal theoretical components: Authority, Infantilization, Double-planedness Intonation, Rhythm, and Concert Pseudo-Passiveness
• Soviet psychology —— all students can be taught a given subject matter at the same level of skill.
II. Characteristics
The most conspicuous characteristics of Suggestopedia are the decoration, furniture, arrangement of the classroom, the use of music, and the authoritative behavior of the teacher.
IV. Design
Objectives: Suggestopedia aims to deliver advanced conversational proficiency quickly; the understanding and creative solution of problems.
Learners’ roles
Learners must immense themselves in the procedures of the method, and maintain a pseudo-passive state.
Teachers’ roles
To create situations in which the learner is most suggestible and then to present linguistic material in a way most likely to encourage positive reception and retention by the learner.
Learning activities: imitation, question and answer, and role play. The type of activities that are original to suggestopedia are the listening activities, which concern the text and text vocabulary of east 30 days and consist of ten units of study. • 4 hours a day, 6 days a week. • focus on dialogue in each unit which consists of 1200 words or so, with an accompanying vocabulary list and grammatical commentary . •The dialogues are graded by lexis and grammar.
III. The theory of language
Memorization of vocabulary pairs — a target language item and its native language translation— suggests Lexis is central, and lexical translation rather than contextualization is stressed.
Lozanov describes Suggestology as a science concerned with the systematic study of the nonrational or nonconscious influences that human beings are constantly responding to.
I. Introduction
It is a method developed by the Bulgarian psychiatrist-educator Georgi Lozanov in 1960s .
Suggestopedia is derived from Suggestology (“suggestion” + “pedagogy”).
暗示法 Suggestopedia
Introduction Characteristics Theories Design Procedure Application in China Evaluation
Bulgarian psychiatrist-educator Georgi Lozanov