Suggestopedia is a teaching model developed by a Bulgarian, Dr. Georgi Lozanov, at the University of Sofia in Bulgaria in the 60's. Dr. Lozanov was a pioneer in that Suggestopedia was the first of the various cutting-edge brain friendly learning techniques which are utilized in progressive classrooms today.
This method enables students to learn the language in the nice, calm environment in the classroom during the lessons. One of the main aims in this method is to make the classroom environment cosy for the learners. Hence it includes the comfortable chairs, dim lighting and special kind of music. To increase the stage of relaxation among students calm music (especially Baroque one) is played as the background to the lesson. Lozanov believed that this certain type of music helps to relax and to achieve better results in remembering target language together with new words and phrases.
The teacher is important in the classroom, in fact he is treated as the authority. His role is to encourage students to speak even with their mistakes. He may correct the errors but at the end of the certain task. He can’t disturb the students’ speech or disturb while they are speaking. It is also important to mention that homework is not very important unlike the other methods. In this approach it is present but students are only re-reading the dialogues from the given lesson or lessons. Typical techniques in this method involve: creating the classroom which looks rather like the normal room in the house to help the students to relax.Teaching can be conducted in a less stressful way.the students may feel that the right atmosphere during lectures is also important and increases the learning process.