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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.

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Meanings

nounsuggestopedia (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA 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: desuggestopedia, suggestopedy

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA 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.

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desuggestopediasuggestopedy
Also see
desuggestopediasuggestopedy

Origin

From suggestion and pedagogy.

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Translations

French suggestopédie
  • suggestopédieteaching method
Cite this entry
APA

suggestopedia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suggestopedia

MLA

“suggestopedia.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suggestopedia. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “suggestopedia,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suggestopedia.

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