Suggestopedia Method

 Hello! Welcome back!

So, in today´s class, we learned about the Suggestopedia method, which stimulates students´ brains by playing relaxing music (barroque and classical back in time) in the background while they do activities. Suggestopedia was first proposed in the19709´s by Georgi Lozanov an expert on psychology and psychiatry. He strongly believed that the learning environment was of huge importance. Students who are in a relaxing, interesting, and positive environment, learn more quickly, to his mind. I personally believe that it can work in specific activities because it promotes creativity and concentration. However, as discussed in class, we shouldn´t over-rely on this method because it can turn out to be a distractor instead an incentive if used the wrong way.

We talked about the Affective filter, which indicates that for students to learn, they need to be totally ok. If a student is hungry, emotionally unstable, sleepless, or in any other negative circumstance, it is harder to learn if not impossible. We had a couple of activities, we talked about the memories of our childhood and teenage years and it was surprising how music endures in our minds. Then, we did a short composition task about our last vacations. Later we drew something while the teacher played a song and it shocked me how most of us drew things related to nature. I was focused and relaxed, and to be honest, a little sleepy :D. We also translated a song: Mist by Ella Fitzgerard while listening to its melodies, and in order to apply this method to vocabulary acquisition, we listened to a song and wrote down a list of animals of a farm and then we crossed out the words in our list as we heard them. 

It was a nice class! Here I attach some pics from the activities:

"We're on our way, we´re on our way, on our way to grandpa´s farm! We're on our way, we´re on our way, on our way to grandpa´s farm!" 🎼🎼🎼

This is my drawing while inspired by the song played, and my exquisite list of animals!