Suggestopedia

Suggestopedia one of the teaching methods developed by the Bulgarian psychotherapist Georgi Lozanov in the 1970s. It is used in different fields, but mostly in the field of foreign language learning. Lozanov has claimed that by using this method students can learn a language approximately three to five times as quickly as through conventional teaching methods.

Suggestopedia has been called a pseudoscience. It strongly depends on the trust that students develop towards the method by simply believing that it works.

However, as the method improved, it has focused more on “desuggestive learning” and now is often called “desuggestopedia.” Suggestopedia is a portmanteau of the words “suggestion” and “pedagogy". A common misconception is to link "suggestion" to "hypnosis".