SUGGESTOPEDIA
Principles & Techniques
Principles
• Teacher’s goals: • Process: comfortable,
relaxing; students choose
Accelerate process of “new” identities; whole
learning everyday brain used-; feelings
lang; reducing strongly acknowledged,
psychological barriers positive reinforcement;
Roles: teacher as • 2 phases:
authority Receptive--
figure..embodies trust, Activation
respect, easily
persuasive
Principles (cont’d)
• Lang/culture: • Native lang: translation to
clarify at beginning
complementary facets level..reduced as students
of communication; advance
fine arts used in • Evaluation: in-class
classroom performance; not formal
because of heightened
• Emphasis: vocab anxiety
important; explicit • Errors: communication of
grammar but focus on intended meaning
using language vital..teacher models
correct forms in later
stages
Techniques
Relaxing Peripheral Positive
Classroom Learning Suggestion
Set-up (posters) (music)
Visualization New Identity Role-Play
Techniques (cont’d)
PHASES
FIRST CONCERT PRIMARY ACTIVATION
"receptive phase" group reading dialog;
dialog in target lang; varying emotion
music used to dramatize
SECOND CONCERT SECONDARY ACTIVATION
students listen with closed eyes; learning new info;
content determines rhythm focus on communicative intent--not form