Disadvantages of Suggestopedia
The main disadvantages of suggestopedia are as follow:
- Environment limitation: Most schools in developing countries have large classes. Each class consists of 30 to 40 students. There should be 12 students in the class.
- The use of hypnosis: Some people say that suggestopedia uses a hypnosis, so it has bad deep effects for human beings. Lazanov strongly denied about it.
- Infantilization learning: Suggestopedia class is conditioned be child-like situation. There are some students who do not like to be treated like this as they
- Peripheral learning: Suggestopedia encourages the students to apply language more independently, takes more personal responsibility for their own learning and get more confidence. Peripheral information can also help encourage students to be more experimental, and look to sources other than the teacher for language input.