CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Suggestopedia is a teaching method which is based on a modern understanding of how the human brain works and how humans learn most effectively. It was developed by a Bulgarian psychotherapist named Georgi Lozanov.

Detailed explanation-2: -Abstract: Suggestopedia is a method of teaching a foreign language in which students learn quickly by being made to feel relaxed, interested and positive. The method is developed because of the argument that students naturally face psychological barriers to learning.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lozanov (1978) states that there are four main stages of the activities in suggestopedia method. They are presentation, concert session (active and passive), elaboration, and practice. In the presentation stage, the students are helped to get positive mind that learning is easy and fun.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the classroom, turn off the lights and play background music. Then, group the students into three, and ask them to close their eyes, and let them imagine, for one minute, that they are animals, birds, trees, or flowers. Chirping birds in the background enriches the students’ experience and relaxes them as well.

Detailed explanation-5: -There are six key features of suggestopedia method. They are comfortable environment, the use of music, peripheral learning, free errors, homework is limited, and music, drama, and art are integrated in the teaching and learning process.