5th Teaching & Education Conference, Amsterdam

ELABORATION TECHNIQUES IN A SUGGESTOPEDIC FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASS

RADOSTINA MIHALEVA

Abstract:

The present article deals with the elaboration techniques of Suggestopedia-Desuggestopedia in particular, and provides practical hints to foreign language teachers who are willing to make their lessons intriguing as well as effective in terms of language acquisition. As adult students are often very sensitive to their own mistakes and find it difficult to overcome the psychological barriers which prevents them from freely expressing themselves in the foreign language, Suggestopedia-Desuggestoedia comes to the rescue by introducing some very effective elaboration techniques which will turn the learning process into a project-game full of numerous, pleasant games and exercises, which students do not perceive as drills. The Suggestopedic elaboration techniques always provide a double-plan view point.

Keywords: Suggestopedia, Desuggestopedia, Elaboration Techniques, Dr. Georgi Lozanov, the Bulgarian Method

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