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Makale Özeti:
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The teaching method of suggestopaedia, which originated in the 1970s
owing to the efforts of Bulgarian psychotherapist GeorgiLozanov, has already
been applied in the framework of studies dealing with ELT. In practice the
method consists of several stages, the central of which represents intonation
reading against appropriate musical background. Unconscious or not fully
conscious psychical activity linked to the concept of “concert pseudo-passivity”
is critical at that stage. There have been a number of studies conducted in Georgia
with the use of this method.
This paper is a modest attempt to contribute to this relatively new and
exciting field of pedagogy. The author conceived to conduct the experiment,
while using 20th century music during the phase of concert pseudo-passivity. It
should be mentioned that suggestopaedia generally uses classical music to create
the concert pseudo-passivity. The author, however, experimented with two genres
of the 20th century: blues and jazz. Thus, the experiment was broken down into
two parts.
In the first part, the author investigated whether applying blues poetry as
means for intonation reading, combined with the blues music as an audio-mirror
of the read verse, influences the degree of acquisition of the vocabulary at the
advanced level. This yielded positive results allowing further investigation in the
area.
In the second part of the experiment, the author conducted twelve
academic sessions, of which eight (8) went on to usetraditional ways of teaching
The Impact of Musical Component on Vocabulary Acquisition (Using the Blues and Jazz as
Musical Tools) vocabulary, and four (4) were done with the elements of suggestopaedia, with the
use of jazz music. The experiment has proven that with the use of suggestopaedi,a
the academic outcome of the students increased by 20%, which can definitely be
qualified as methodological success that should be used as an auxiliary tool in the
course of teaching.
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