Jane Pauleen C. Morales MLLP ELT 213

SUGGESTOPEDIAObjectives: 1. Define Suggestopedia. 2. Explain the Principles of Suggestopedia. 3. Relate Suggestopedia to Teaching Situation/Implication. 4. Analyze Suggestopedia based on Language learning theories.5. Derive methods and approaches used in Suggestopedia.

I. Definition: Accelerates language learning by employing suggestion to free the students functional reserves. Lozanov (1988) Derived from Suggestology, which Lozanov describes as science concerned with the systematic study of non rational and/or non conscious influences that human beings are constantly responding to. The most conspicuous characteristics of Suggestopedia are the decoration, furniture, and arrangement of classroom, the use of music, centrality of music, musical rhythm to learning and the authoritative behavior of the teacher. Gaston (1968) defines 3 functions of music in theraphy: 1. to facilitate the establishment and maintenance of personal relations;2. to bring about increased self-esteem through increased self-satisfaction;3. music relaxes learners as well as to structure, pace, and punctuate the presentation of linguistic material.