a part of classroom ornamentation that can engage students so the learning process will be more fun and interested.
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b. Furniture Furniture that can used in suggestopedia method is equipment that can help the
learning process in the classroom. Such as the comfortable chair, whiteboard, and cupboard.
c. Arrangement of the Classroom The classroom in suggestopedia can be arranged in comfortable condition that
can make the students comfort, for example the arrangement of the chair in the classroom. Most of classroom around the world students sit in orderly rows.
But in suggestopedia the chair can be arranged more interesting, depends on teachers’ creativity. Teachers can arrange the classroom freely to make students
more relax and enjoy.
d. The use of music The most important feature of suggestopedia is the centrally of music and musical
rhythm to learning.
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The music on suggestopedia has an important function in learning process, it is for therapy. The music facilitate the establishment and
maintenance of personal relations, to bring about increased self- esteem trough increased self-satisfaction in musical performance, and to use the unique potential
of rhythm to energize and bring order.
3. Technique of Suggestopedia
In suggestopedia, there some techniques are used. Those are described below by Larsen:
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Jeremy Harmer, The Practice of English Language Teaching, Longman, 2001, p 135
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Richard, Loc Cit, p 100
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Diane Larse-Freeman, Techniques and Principles in Language teaching, Oxford University Press, 2000 pp. 84-85
a. Classroom set-up
This is emphasis in pleased on creating a physical environment that d
oesn’t feel like a normal classroom and make the students feel as a relaxed a comfortable as possible.
b. Visualization
The students are asked to close their eyes and visualize scenes and events. It is to help them relax, facilitate positive suggestion and encourage
creativity from the students. c.
New identity In this case, the Students select of target language name andor occupation
that places them “inside” the language they are learning. d.
Role-play Role play is one method of maximizing students’ activities in the class
and ensuring that the students get an optimum level of practice during their limited time. In this activities, the students use target language in
perform a rule in role play. Role play also provides varieties of activity and of interaction, and takes the focus of the class away from the teacher.
4. Theoritical Components of Suggestopedia
According to Bancroft, there are six principal components are used in the classroom includes: authority, infantilization, double- planedness, intonation,
rhythm, concert pseudo-passiveness.
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1. Authority The students will remember and are influence from teachers. The teacher has
authority in the classroom to lead to greater expectancy and higher motivation on the part of the students.
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Bancroft, Suggestopedia and language Acquisition variation on a theme, Amsterdam : The Gordon and Breach Publisher, 1999, p.33
