What is suggestopedia and how does it differ from traditional methodologies?

professor doctor Georgi Lozanov
Prof. Dr. Georgi Lozanov
July 1993, Viktorsberg (Austria)
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Suggestopedia was created in Bulgaria in the 60s of the last century by the Bulgarian Prof. Dr. Georgy Lozanov. It is a methodology that combines pedagogy, aesthetics, art and psychology.The result of many years of research, development and experimentation, suggestopedia is gaining worldwide recognition as a language teaching method. In 1978, after an observation by a UNESCO commission, suggestopedia was declared a “higher education methodology”.

Suggestopedia is based on the activation of the brain’s hidden reserves. Through role plays, classical works, songs and dramatizations, the unfolding of our potential takes place. Teaching English language with the suggestopedia method, it makes possible to assimilate three to five times more material in a natural way and without any stress (compared to the traditional teaching method).

Communication is done with ease, joy and inspiration. At the very beginning of the suggestopedic course, barriers and anxiety in communication are overcome, and at the end the course participants can converse calmly, confidently and casually in the respective language.

At the heart of suggestopedia is active and passive listening to classical music concert sessions. Against the background of specially selected works, the teacher reads the text, in which all the vocabulary and grammar of the relevant lesson are presented.

In order to carry out a real suggestopedic process and to reach the hidden reserves of our brain, the 7 laws of suggestopedia must be respected.

7 Laws of Suggestopedia

1. Love
2. Freedom
3. The teacher’s belief that something extraordinary is happening
4. The increase in teaching materials
5. The partial-global, global-partial proportion
6. The Golden Ratio
7. The application of classical art and aesthetics

The Suggestopedia is not only a methodology, but a way to reveal our hidden potential, which we all carry. It’s a way that shows us that anyone can learn a foreign language.

Yes, everyone can! And with ease.