Desuggestopedia

This teaching method focuses on the relationship between mental potential and learning ability

Humans are more capable of learning more than we think once we utilize brain power and inner capacities

In a confident & relaxed (but focused) state the human mind can process great quantities of information

ENVIRONMENT

Classroom Environment

• Comfortable seating
• Arranged in semicircle and faced to the teacher's board
• Dim light

Use of Music

Baroque music

• 60 beats per minute
• Intended to reduce blood pressure and heart rate
• Music is always used in the background and depends on activity/skill planned

Peripheral Learning

Indirect Instruction

• Posters and decoration featuring the target language and various grammatical information visible on walls
• Information changed everyday

Free errors

• In the teaching learning process of speaking mistakes are tolerated
• Emphasis is on content not structure

Free errors

• Grammar and vocabularies are presented and given treatment from teachers, but not dwelt on

Homework

• ... is limited
• Students re-read materials given in the classroom once before they go to sleep at night and once in the morning before they get up.

Students remember best and are most influenced by information coming from an
authoritative source, teachers.

Teacher Role

• Show absolute confidence in the method
• Display fastidious conduct in manners and dress.
• Organize properly, and strictly observe the initial stages of the teaching process—this includes choice and play of music, as well as punctuality.

Teacher Role

• Maintain a solemn attitude towards the session.
• Give tests and respond tactfully to poor papers (if any).
• Stress global rather than analytical attitudes towards material.
• Maintain a modest enthusiasm.

Order of Events

In the Classroom

• Presentation
• Concert (1st & 2nd)
• Practice

Presentation

• The main aim at this stage is to help students relax and move into a positive frame of mind, with the feeling that the learning is going to be easy and fun.

Ritualistic Concert Sessions

First Concert

• Involves the active presentation of the material to be learnt.
• Typically long dialogues read aloud to students with the accompaniment of music and actions
• Dialogues read with and without actions

Second Concert

• Teacher makes use of dialogues for more conventional language work

Second Concert

• Students given a copy of dialogue and read with the teacher with the incorporation of activities designed to help remember the meaning

Possible Activities

• Act out portions of the text
• Singing specially prepared songs
• Playing games
• Telling stories
• Carrying on short conversations
• Carrying on psycho-dramas

Practice

• The use of a range of role-plays, games, puzzles, etc to review and consolidate the learning