Language Teaching Methods: Suggestopedia

Language Teaching Methods explores various methodologies of English language teaching. This was a joint project by Diane Larsen-Freeman and the U.S. Information Agency and was produced in 1990. This video demonstrates Suggestopedia with Lise Sparrow.
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[@khaledalbarqi4694]

I’m watching this just bc I want to pass APPLIED LINGUISTICS exam 😩

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Me tooo

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[@khaledalbarqi4694]

@@rachidbaali6472 Best of luck!

[@pesce0694]

Me too bc I had to pre on suggestopedia and gave a short demo class

[@danieltheteacher]

Peaceful voice, peaceful music, peaceful dress, the teacher is relaxing me with her reading and I got sleepy. The atmosphere ..the learning environment was so soothing.

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[@taekwon79tkd]

Great video! I watched it in a methodology course in a master's program. The book assigned for the course was also Larsen-Freeman's classic book Techniques and Principles in English Language Teaching.

[@user-uv9nh2rb7s]

Diana Larsenfreeman, you are a born best teacher in the planet.I got your book incomparable in my masters degree in Language and applied linguistics.Long life for you. Mengesha From Ethiopia.

[@21agenda]

Thank you for sharing this material! It's really useful.

[@NickCooper74]

Dr. Sparrow is the pastor at my church. I attend SIT Graduate Institue where Diane Larsen-Freeman is the professor emerita. What a small world!

[@catherinehyun2678]

On the second reading the text, I could remind of the movement what she made before like movie screen. It's great but still doubt I can apply to EFL.

[@paolabiehl]

The use of gestures to explain vocab and practice pronunciation, in my opinion, helped more than the use of music... anyway, great class! We need to be open to new ideas and techniques.

[@VictorSilva-ic2bk]

it's old, but very good. Thanks i learned so much!!

[@rubinashaheen6376]

its great...good demonstration and good explanation.... i find it really useful

[@Lilliput-fy9sk]

I have an exam tomorrow and am thankful to find out about these videos ❤

[@user-sn5bg3xe1k]

The music is gentle and soothing.

[@englishwithqueen9099]

I was skeptical when I first read about the' Suggestopedia' but after watching video! Outstanding.

[@andresgarciacastro1783]

There are elements that we can all benefit from, definitly. A low stress environment is something we should all aim for.

[@SuggestopediaForAll]

Thank you so much for this video! It is so inspiring!!! I truly believe that we need more suggestopedia every day.

[@Tommixist]

I play the space music and offer a free trip to the space to my students. It's awesome!

[@ayatjassam7984]

It's a beautiful presentation 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@Mybrightidea22]

Really interesting way of teaching, I would certainly would use these techniques with young learners. I think I would find the music distracting though.

[@margotteresagodoypena1777]

We have to be able to incorporate different methods so as our students have fun learning and the classes dont turn boring... always something new ;-) Kids should act out a number of role plays to give meaning to what they have memorized or read.

[@EUGENIUS60]

Great lesson it is refreshing, so much nonsense passes up for teaching these days it is encouraging to realise that some teachers are putting not only their soul into it as well as intelligence and thoughtfulness .

[@pelagiasuggestopedia5281]

My favourite suggestopedia. Любимата ми сугестопедия!!! Nothing is forgotten!!

[@pelagiasuggestopedia5281]

Най-доброто предстои! Сугестопедията е жива и ще пребъде!!! ❤️❤️❤️

[@chiararizzo9127]

i watched all the videos in this series and this was my favorite! thanks

[@kendawg_mcawesome]

Very insightful, I'm currently learning about this technique for the evaluation of a derived methodology and a curriculum designed around it, so this is very helpful in the absence of examining a class in person.

[@amirdequan81]

Thanks very nice these videos helped me understand the methods better

[@alannewson852]

This is gold. Thanks for sharing :)

[@spartan.falbion2761]

I'm impressed how minor pronunciations are focused upon. Reading text as a group is not effective, as as we all known students can pretend to read. This is the most derided teaching method - but this would excite me immensely.

[@mistymetcalf451]

Why is this so good? Great teaching.

[@bahmanamiri5622]

You are my favorite writer in methodology. And i suggest your book to my students.

[@JMyepes]

Very interesting! Thank you!

[@gustavoromeroruiz3668]

Great class, and awesome participation from the students, I didn't know this method

[@adrybeto06]

nice videos!!! it would be great if you post videos with other methods. partcipatory approaches and others.

[@raymondtindugan8325]

I think suggestopedia is effective especially in this time of pandemic. It will help our students lower their stress because of the relaxing music.

[@janieliu9713]

The method is fantastic. It is exactly what students need. Students may still have to preview some of the words in the script before watching the show

[@jasminsuliman4010]

Old but gold ♥️

[@minhlamera9431]

I would like to join this class so much. I like the Teacher ❤️

[@burcuinan218]

When was the lecture video taken?

[@caiodossantosmonteiro5963]

Love to learn about different schools of thought focused on didactics, pedagogy and language learning.

[@belhassanirabia3325]

Thank you so much for this video

[@bobfrye4469]

now i got it, thanks

[@user-gi7cv9ou2n]

Wow... I read her book when I was a master student

[@winfreyalyssa9584]

Beautiful teacher

[@nisakdri97ict20]

its very nice and useful .

The guy at 6:40 is almost sleeping. So am I. This video is pure asmr.

[@mirsajad8778]

This is really oustanding !!!!!! I like your way of teaching.

[@wissammohammed618]

perfect , how can I get the passage pleases?

[@thugrosenogameplays4578]

Hi! Where can I find the text you read at this class?

[@Anonymous-ec8xk]

Very interesting!

[@romanticraaz9843]

Helpful text for tu syllable..tnq mam🌹

[@zeinabhasani198]

Is there any difference between the desuggestopedia and suggestopedia method?

[@winfreyalyssa9584]

I like this method best up to now

[@user-jb8hi2qj2y]

What's the main points in this method please answer me

[@user-dp9ef9xf2x]

Wow 🎉 Amazing class ❤

[@withhasnae7784]

I am watching this to prepare for my " Elt methodology " exam 🙂

[@raghu_radha_chethan_shashank]

Nice teaching methods

[@anasbenhaddou6909]

Thank you so much

[@gulhanaykut4678]

old and gold methodd :D

[@StanSB19.143]

Hello. What is the title of the music?

[@wudgee]

I'd get annoyed as a student trying to listen to music during a reading, it wouldn't relax me at all but some good ideas eg with colours.

[@TheZakev]

Is it good? Will help me to learn and improve my pronunciation?

[@alessandroricciardi7317]

Chavdar Zakev not at all.

Now a now-linguistic comment. This video was my first experience with ASMR.

[@leonardoperez2029]

I like it!

[@lamamurad6836]

What the summary plz ?

[@susyboyas7585]

What is the subject that the teacher is giving?

[@winfreyalyssa9584]

Maybe part of a literature text, with the consolidation of past tense?

[@demilovato3300]

Nice

[@ada9213]

Does anybody know the background music name?

[@Benjamin-lv5fm]

I believe it's Canon in D.

[@launibrent2149]

The song is cannon in D and the music genre is Baroque

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[@MariaKPMbata]

2021 checkkk

[@translationbymahmoudfathi1838]

I need subtitle of this video please can any one give me.

[@faiabdullah7272]

Who knows the name of the music?

[@martyt526]

Canon in D by Pachelbel

[@kholoodmahafza8038]

Help me summarize the video

[@ejalal33]

These methods won't work in all countries unfortunately,

[@luisguillermocauichchi8169]

Saludos al team coconuts

[@PhilipSpencer74]

This method seems to require a lot more preparation--and investment in props--than is practical in most EFL classes. I like the idea of T reads and then SS read the same passage as a method of teaching pronunciation. Teaching -ed endings is interesting, but she doesn't go into the most important pronunciation--that if /Id/. I like the use of colors. The ball game for irregular verbs is good, but certainly not innovative. Peaceful music might be useful under some circumstances, but I don't see it as helping much. Students seem to understand. Can they produce?

[@PhilipSpencer74]

You're right. Since Suggestopedia was developed in the 1970s, this has been the major criticism. Few schools or language institutions have the resources to develop such a system.

[@fernandovasquezastudillo298]

Philip Spencer I agree with you that throwing a ball is not really innovative but please the class was taped in the 90's and doing that in the classroom was innovative. So, please give some credit to the teacher. I am an EFL teacher and teaching is hard to do. About production, I know that we want our students to produce language but each person has its own speed to master the language and also it has to do with students' goals as not all the language learners what to be C2. So, the question I would ask is: Can students produce some language according to their goals?

[@fernandovasquezastudillo298]

Fernando Vasquez Astudillo *want to be

[@RabidTales]

Why do all these lesson clips look like they have been filmed in 1939? Where's some modern vids that are relevant to today and not the dinosaur age.

[@jgordon194]

This would clash with so many cultures that value more formal styles of education. This reminds me of a bad poetry night I attended... slightly creepy

[@rq_saad4441]

I have a presentation in these technique 🙂

[@wertherproximus6212]

It's nice if the sub is active

[@xyanw1291]

这代入感太强了，睡着了好几次

[@RonaldCastro-bu3rz]

Everyone in that classroom was 15 🤣🤣

[@user-ov6no6pm8g]

Am I the only one who doesn't get the idea of suggestopedia??? Can anyone tell me what was the focus of the lesson? I've seen some bits of vocab (though on random topics), some bits of pronunciation, some bits of grammar, a LOT of listening to the teacher. So... what's the main goal? If listening - why were there no comprehension questions? If grammar - why so little? If pronunciation - why were the students silent? If vocabulary - why random phrases? Hands down, the goal was definitely not speaking. I'm also wondering what level these students are. There was virtually no output during the whole lesson, so I really can't guess. Though the input was weird, because the grammar was sometimes A1-A2 (irregular verbs), sometimes B1 (there was Past Perfect in the text), but the vocab was at times even more horrifying. Vocab be like: She lifted the suitcase on her bed (A2 - B1) -- OK She unlatched the clasps (C1 - C2) -- WTF, why?? Honestly, I can't see the way English can be taught from A to C using this method. A couple of lessons might do just to relax, but not more. P.S. I really want to hear why my point is wrong, if there is anyone who disagrees with me. But right now it's just unbelievebale to me that Lozanov proposed studying like that 4 hours/day, 6 days/week P.S.S. As a person who fears public speeches, I can imagine how "relaxing" it was for the guy (17:31) to act

[@MaryArts]

My classmates would always scream: Can you say that again? Or: I haven't understand anything or: What is this word -.- Everything wouldn't work

[@genefritsch3661]

sounds like you could use some lessons in classroom management ;)

[@xfxrxmxt1981]

I highly doubt suggestopedia really works. I mean for a beginner will represent quite a challenge.

[@pelagiasuggestopedia5281]

It works.. especially with beginners :) I am simply loving this methodology !!

[@evavigo]

@@pelagiasuggestopedia5281 I doubt that the amount of language she is using without further explanation would work with beginners. Maybe with more advanced ones, but beginners?

[@pelagiasuggestopedia5281]

@@evavigo No. Suggestopedia works especially for beginners. I don't divide into levels..No need. We use "advanced" from the start. Suggestopedia commuinicates directly with our subconscious..The more complex is the language we hear the quicker we learn!!!! Yours, Milena Mandova, Sofia, Bulgaria

[@karenkordes2210]

This is NOT Suggestopedia. I was trained by Lonny Gold who was personally trained by Dr. Georgi Lozanov himself. Dr. Lozanov passed away in 2012.

[@nahlahnmk6847]

Karen Kordes then please tell what is exactly Suggestopedia. I really want to know 💕 please.

[@keyrinmeholyeucedapaz2868]

Hello

[@keyrinmeholyeucedapaz2868]

I would like to know too

[@jeff5579]

Is there any scientific work to backup Lozanov's claims? Wagner and Tilney's (1983) claim that techniques adapted from Suggestopedia revealed "no significant improvements" and "when modes of presentation were compared those taught by a traditional classroom method learned significantly more". TESOL/TEFL/ESL is a muddy pond of quackery.

[@Zedexization]

you make us suffer with all your methods.

[@genefritsch3661]

i guess youre a good candidate for teach-yourself-a-language then.

[@MrJJackFLASH]

@@genefritsch3661 A person with high IQ doesn't need to be taught that way. Personally I, apply suggestopedia once in a while, but I do that in a playful manner: I simply play relaxing music while listening to my student who is an attractive lady, quiet and submissive. When I have to play a really important recording, I have to turn the music off.

[@millydelarosa5552]

@@MrJJackFLASH what are you doing here then?

[@2010douggy]

They didn't practice much pronunciation, much vocabulary and much accurancy. Besides that, they didn't interact with each other or even practice the vocabulary they learned. The only moment they spoke was in large groups, and they would never be corrected if they made and mistake. The only good thing was the teacher's friendliness and perfect fluency. Moreover, imagine teaching like this in a VIP class with someone who doesn't know a jot in English at all! With all deal respect, I think that would crash and burn.

[@dannimalcrossing]

Well these classes are typically like 4 hours long...

[@EUGENIUS60]

Most people are happy just going through the motion repeating and doing things that do not work.

[@genefritsch3661]

your opinion only...there are lots of other methods that you might like if this doesn't appeal to you.

[@robross7401]

The /d/ /t/ difference in pronunciation for past participle word ending in English is a very small, if not altogether irrelevant teaching point. Your tongue itself takes care of the pronunciation. It's pretty hard to do anything else. It's simply a phonological phenomenon

[@PortuguesewithEli]

Rob Ross not if your native language is Portuguese....

[@HazellUbeda]

Or spanish.

[@robross7401]

​@@HazellUbeda Your native language will obviously influence your pronunciation but it's not the point with the /t/ or /d/ ending in participles. If you mistakingly pronounce one for the other it's not essential for understanding, and should self correct eventually. As regards the /d/ itself, both in Portuguese and in Spanish, it has two pronunciations, conditioned by what precedes and follows it. That's what the phonological rule is inthis case. Take 'dedo': the first /d/ is a normal alveolar stop but the second is a fricative as in 'the'. So you have /ˈdeðu/ in Port and /ˈdeðo/ in Spanish. Not all native speakers will be aware of the rule. I haven't met any in my 30+ years of teaching English

[@MrDirtynewyorker]

16:36 she falling in love with him

[@jasonbaker2014]

hahahaha xD

[@PURPLE.REIGN.1999]

Wikipedia ripped off suggestopedia

[@davm1226]

How?

[@davm1226]

This is really difficult to watch home dog

[@fernandaandrade8657]

sleep......

[@urvashisangwan8858]

Sarah 😜

[@romulopantojarj]

sleep...... A LOT

[@Benjamin-lv5fm]

lots of running commentary.

[@paulkovax8542]

Why does she look like Jack Black?

[@livingabroad8344]

It´s a good one but I literally fell asleep! This is not proper for people like me, really

[@elibertomartinez7573]

Where is the student's active participation? To me this method doesn't work. Only repetition? What a boring way. Sorry!

Agreed!

[@genefritsch3661]

Gee I could hear them reading and acting out (TPR). What were you expecting-flamenco dancing??

[@bebko3]

That's not exatcly Dr Lozanov's practise. This is kinda funny and the teacher is strange and surely don't know how to behave. Some of the things she says are stupid, and the game with the ball just made me WTF

[@quetepasaclarin11]

sure you can do it better huh? why dont you upload your videos showing us how to behave in a class? it would be interesting

[@genefritsch3661]

I have to agree with you. Not really following Lozanov's direction. The dark room was a giveaway. But I still like the possibilities.

[@alejandraberenicesotodelto8874]

Ann-Marie you’re wrong the teacher is not “strange” she seems sweet and really tries to give the students confidence. The class was very active and the students were engaged. You’re just an idiot.

[@ArulPalanisamy]

It's not suggestopedia.... It is saambar podiya.....

[@diegocristianpolastri6349]

My God they look so rigid (the teacher who explain and a little bit less the teacher who teaches through this method)

[@TomSmith-ye4ei]

Strange way to teach a language.