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suggestopedia

suggestopedia noun: a teaching method, mainly for foreign languages, that uses songs and games and focuses more on experimenting with the language than on formal acquisition of its rules.

Noun

suggestopedia (uncountable)

  1. A teaching method, mainly for foreign languages, that uses songs and games and focuses more on experimenting with the language than on formal acquisition of its rules.
    • I've just said that suggestopedia "stacks up well" against a list of individual features, each of which seems to me to be desirable in an approach.1998, Earl W. Stevick, Working with Teaching Methods: What's at Stake?, page 160

Synonyms of suggestopedia

Origin of suggestopedia

From suggestion and pedagogy.

Words formed from suggestopedia

Questions about suggestopedia

What does suggestopedia mean?
Suggestopedia means a teaching method, mainly for foreign languages, that uses songs and games and focuses more on experimenting with the language than on formal acquisition of its rules.
What part of speech is suggestopedia?
Suggestopedia is a noun.

Words near suggestopedia in the dictionary

  1. suggestiveness
  2. suggestivenesses
  3. suggestivity
  4. suggestment
  5. suggestments
  6. suggestopedia
  7. suggestopedic
  8. suggestopedy
  9. suggestor
  10. suggestors
  11. suggestress

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