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Teachers Roles
Teacher should create situations in which learners are most suggestible and
then to present linguistic material in a way most likely to encourage positive
reception and retention by learners. Lozanov lists several expected teacher
behaviors as follows:
Show absolute confidence in the method.
Display fastidious conduct in manners and dress.
Organize properly, and strictly observe the initial stages of the teaching
processthis includes choice and play of music, as well as punctuality.
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.
Learners Roles
The learners as well are should have faith in the system and accept that they
are in a childlike situation where they follow the teacher / parent (Knight, 2001,
p. 154). The students should not be critical, but simply absorb what is presented
to them.
Advantages
Classes are held in ordinary rooms with comfortable chairs, a practice
that may also help them relaxed.
Authority concept
Students remember best and are most influenced by information coming
from an authoritative source, teachers.
Peripheral learning: Suggestopedia encourages the students to apply
language more independently, takes more personal responsibility for
their own learning and get more confidence.
Disadvantages
CONCLUSION
Teacher will find different situation and different types of students in learning.
Therefore, teacher should be creative and smart in choosing and using different
types of methods in teaching different skill of language. Teacher can use
suggestopedia as teaching method in their teaching. Using suggestopedia is
very interesting but challenging to do. It can be seen from some considerations.
In one side it has some benefits, but on the other side it also has some
weaknesses. In addition, the key factors of effective teaching are not the
approaches and methods in language teaching themselves but the teachers
deliberate selection of different approaches and methods and the devoted
practice of putting theories into real teaching activities in a corresponding socialcultural context. It is a fact that no approach or method is perfect. However,
there is no end for teacher to seek the perfection of the approaches and
methods in language teaching. The language teaching method known as
Suggestopedia provides some valuable insights into the power of cognition and
creates techniques that make students feel comfortable, relaxed and
suggestible to the material being learned.