Suggestopedia

Suggestopedia is a teaching method developed by Georgi Lozanov that uses relaxation, music, and suggestion to support learning, especially foreign-language learning.

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Desuggestopedia: A later name for Lozanov’s method, emphasizing the removal of psychological barriers to learning. The renamed approach makes the method’s focus on reducing learning barriers explicit.
Suggestibility: The tendency to accept or respond to suggestions from other people or circumstances. Lozanov made responsiveness to suggestion central to his account of learning.
Foreign language teaching: The teaching and learning of a language other than a learner’s first language. Foreign-language instruction is the principal setting in which Suggestopedia was developed and applied.
Georgi Lozanov: A Bulgarian psychiatrist and educator who developed Suggestopedia. Lozanov formulated the method and promoted its use in education.
Grammar-translation method: A language-teaching approach centered on grammar rules, translation, and written texts. It contrasts with Suggestopedia’s emphasis on relaxed, expressive classroom presentation.
Concert session: A Suggestopedia lesson phase in which material is presented with music, often through expressive teacher reading. This is the method’s best-known procedure for pairing language input with music.
Psychological desuggestion: The reduction of limiting beliefs or expectations that inhibit a person’s performance. The method seeks to loosen learners’ beliefs that constrain what they can learn.
Accelerated learning: Approaches intended to increase the pace or efficiency of learning. Suggestopedia became known for claims that its conditions could speed language learning.
Institute of Suggestology: A Bulgarian research institute associated with Lozanov’s study of suggestion and learning. The institute provided an institutional setting for developing and demonstrating his approach.
Audio-lingual method: A language-teaching approach that uses listening, repetition, and pattern drills to build habits. Its structured repetition differs from Suggestopedia’s use of music, suggestion, and imaginative activity.