The Effect of Using Suggestopedia Among Students’

Speaking Ability

Yuli Puji Astutik

STIT Muhammadiyah Tanjung Redeb, Berau, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
jasmine_ypa@[Link]

ABSTRACT

Speaking is an important skill to communicate in the globalization era. We cannot deny

the failure is caused by many problems. The success of the learning is involved in
complex things, especially in the lecturer’s ability in learning and teaching. Such as the
interesting material, the using of media, the learning approach and strategy, the
classroom management, school environment, completely facilitation, and many other
aspects. The objective of this research is to find out the effect of using suggestopedia to
the students’ speaking ability. The group had taught by using suggestopedia. It had
conducted a pre-testing them first, then gave them treatment using suggestopedia and
the last conducted a post-test. The instrument was used oral performance test. The
criteria of the performance test scoring were a fluency, accuracy, content, and
pronunciation. According to the result of statistical calculation, it is obtained the value of
(t-observation) is 8,387 and the value of “tc” (t-critical) from the df (31) on degree of
significance of 0,05 % is 1.6955. Based on the finding of this study it can be concluded
that using suggestopedia method in increasing students’ speaking ability is effective.

Keywords: Suggestopedia, students’ speaking ability

Citation APA Style: Astutik, Y. P. (2019). The Effect of Using Suggestopedia Among
Students’ Speaking Ability. English Language in Focus (ELIF), 1(2), 137–144.

INTRODUCTION been used all over the world. Therefore,

E
nglish nowadays is one of the people must master English in order to
cornerstones in daily living and make an understanding of one another in
encounters. It has become an communication.
important language of economy, science, Speaking is a process to convey
business, aviation, entertainment, radio, and sharing ideas and feeling orally.
air transportation, news, education, and Speaking involved some skills such as
diplomacy. Jackson (2010) points out accuracy, appropriateness, fluency, and
that English is not only used when people vocabulary building. All of those
communicate with native speakers, but it elements need to be mastered by the
is also used when people from different students. Therefore, if students do not
nations meet. We cannot deny that learn how to speak or do not get any
English is an international language has opportunities to speak in the language

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classroom, they may soon lose their The Definition of Speaking

interest in learning. From the Speaking is a language, language is
observation in the class in STIT essentially speech, and speech is
Muhammadiyah, Tanjung Redeb, Berau, basically communication by sounds.
the writer found that in teaching and According to Richards & Renandya
learning English has given to each class. (2002), speaking is especially difficult for
However, this is not maximum because foreign language learners because
the condition of the class does not effective oral communication requires
support, for instance the noisy class. the ability to use the language
Besides, there are many problems in appropriately in social interactions.
teaching speaking. First, it related to the Speaking is one of the elements of
condition of students who are lack of communication, where communication is
vocabulary. Second, the students regular the output modality and learning is the
to speak their mother tongue “Bahasa input modality of language acquisition.
Indonesia” although they were involved It can be said speaking skill or
in English class. Third, they are rarely to ability is the capability to other the
practice to use English for articulation to express, to state or
communication. The last they were not deliver though, opinion and wish to the
interested in the material given other person. From some definitions
especially in teaching speaking. above, the researcher can conclude that
To cover the problems and make speaking is one of skill of language
the teaching learning process more which has essential role in human
interesting, the teacher should use an interaction and communication. When
interesting technique that makes humans communicate by means of
students enjoy and not afraid of making spoken language or speaking, they can
mistakes. One of the interesting method express meanings that are conveyed
is Suggestopedia method. It is one of the through sounds. That is why speaking
methods of teaching English. In this ability is an important process of English
Suggestopedia method, the students will learning.
do an interesting activity. Every student
will get a turn to speak with their partner The Aspect of Speaking Ability
so they will be motivated to be brave in The process of speaking is used to
giving opinion or say something. be able to speak well and right. Referring
This method can be used for to the aspect of speaking skill,
sharing information to learn the other Nurgiyantoro (2011) stated that in order
subject. In this method doesn’t take place to be able to speak in a language, the
in the competition, in this method the speaker has to mastery the
students will share information and the pronunciation, grammar, and word. It
discussion occurs to students in pairs can be said that the aspect of speaking
when presentation topics during the ability is determined by utterance,
lessons. vocabulary, grammar, content, fluency,

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comprehension, the appropriate of reading of a piece of text,

words choice, familiar, and placement of accompanied by classical music.
stress. 3. Passive Concern
The students are now invited to
Definition of Suggestopedia relax and listen to some Baroque
Before going to the concept of music, with the text being read very
Suggestopedia, it will be better to know quietly in the background. The
what Suggestopedia is. There are some music is specially selected to bring
definitions of Suggestopedia stated by the students into the optimum
some experts. Suggestopedia It is a mental state for the effortless
method developed by Georgi Lozanov. He acquisition of the material.
is the Bulgarian psychiatrist-educator. 4. Practice
Lozanov (2000) describes Suggestopedia The use of a range of games, puzzles,
as science that concerned with the etc, to review and consolidate the
systematic study of the non Rational or learning.
no conscious influences. The influence of Suggestion is at the heart of
Suggestopedia is used to optimize the Suggestopedia. Lozanov claims that his
learning process. Besides, they also state method is different from hypnosis and
that a most conspicuous feature of other forms of mind control because
Suggestopedia in the centrality of music they lack a "desuggestive-suggestive
and musical rhythm to learning. The sense” and “fail to create a constant set
music is played in Suggestopedia gives up to reserves through concentrative
suggestion and creates a relaxed psycho-relaxation.”
situation. Song and music can be used to .
relax the students and providing an The Techniques of Suggestopedia
enjoyable classroom atmosphere. By Anthony (in Brown, 2000) says
playing the music, it will decrease the that techniques are the specific
students’ boredom. activities manifested in the classroom
Suggestopedia helps the students that are consistent with a method and
to feel relax and fun approximately three therefore in harmony with an approach
times as quickly as conventional as well. Technique is consisting of a wide
1. Presentation variety of exercises, activities, or devises
The main aim in this stage is to help used in the language classroom for
students relaxed and move into a realizing lesson objectives. In
positive frame of mind, with the Suggestopedia, there some techniques
feeling that the learning is going to are used. Those are described below by
be easy and funny Lozanov (2000).
2. Active concern 1. Classroom set-up
This involves the active presentation This is emphasis in pleased on
of the material to be learned. For creating a physical environment
example, in a foreign language that doesn’t feel like a normal
course, there might be the dramatic classroom and make the students

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feel like a relaxed a comfortable as pair, and, indeed, suggests to the

possible. students that it is appropriate that
2. Visualization they set such goals for themselves.
The students are asked to close The main objective of teaching is
their eyes and visualize scenes and not memorization, but the aim is to
events. It is to help them relax, understand and creates a creative
facilitate positive suggestion and solution of problems.
encourage creativity from the 2. The syllabus
students. It is criteria for the selection and
3. New identity organization of linguistic and or
In this case, the students select of subject- matter content. The
target language name and/or syllabus is made to guide in
occupation that places them teaching learning process.
“inside” the language they are 3. Types of learning and teaching
learning activities
4. Role-play Based on Stevick in Richards &
Role play is one method of Rodgers (2012) the types of
maximizing students’ activities in activities that are more original to
the class and ensuring that the Suggestopedia are the speaking
students get an optimum level of activities, which concern the text
practice during their limited time. and text vocabulary of each unit. In
In these activities, the students use this activity, first, the students read
target language to perform a rule in and discuss a new narrative text
role play. Role play also provides with the teacher. Second, the
varieties of interactional activity students relax comfortably in
and takes the focus of the class reclining chairs and listen to the
away from the teacher (p.84-86). teacher that read the text in a
certain way. Third, the material is
Design of Suggestopedia acted out by the instructor in a
Design in Suggestopedia dramatic manner over a
consists of objective, syllabus, learning background of the special musical
activities, roles of learners, teachers, and form described preciously. During
materials. The functions of each design this phase students learn back in
are different. Those will be explained their chairs and breathe deeply and
below: regularly as instructed by the
1. Objectives teacher.
According to Richards & Rodgers 4. Learner roles
(2012), the objective of According to Richards & Rodgers
Suggestopedia is to deliver (2012), the roles that students have
advances conversational are:
proficiency quickly. It based its a. Learners must not try to
learning claim on student mastery figure out, manipulate, or
of prodigious lists of vocabulary study the material presented

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but they must maintain a Second was giving the sample treatment.
pseudo-passive state. The last was giving posttest to group
b. The students should build self- whether students got different result or
confidence, spontaneity, and not.
receptivity. Considering the research subject,
c. Group of learners is ideally The population in this study was taken
socially homogeneous, twelve from the first semester of the class in
in number, and divided STIT Muhammadiyah, Tanjung
equally between men and Redeb,Berau in the academic year
women. Learners sit in a 2018/2019 where it is located in Jendral
circle, which encourages face- Sudirman street, Berau, East Kalimantan.
to-face exchange and activity Population is the whole research
participation. subjects. For sampling, the writer used
purposive sampling technique by taking
Teaching Speaking Using one class as sample from one of the first
Suggestopedia Method semester class, namely is class A. This
In teaching and learning speaking class had 32 (thirty two) numbers of
the use of method is very important, student. Then to research this class the
because it can make the teacher easy to writer would teach the sample speaking
give information or material to the ability by Suggestopedia method. Sample
students. The method which can be used is a representative of the population
is Suggestopedia. Suggestopedia is the which studied or to generalize research
method which uses music or videos in results to the population the technique of
teaching learning process. collecting samples used in this study
The use of Suggestopedia in teaching subjects were not randomly assigned.
learning speaking is much needed; In obtaining the data, the writer
Suggestopedia can motivate more of used the test instrument in this research.
students’ mental potential to learn and The writer administered two tests, they
which obtained by suggestion because are pretest and posttest. After the pretest
with this method the teacher can give on groups was held, the next step was
relax situations, so the students can get analyzing the output data. Before
the material easily. With music the performing in t-test, the output data of
students can imagine their think and pretest should fulfill the criteria
then they can describe their imagination underlying t-test as stated that Nunan
to others. From the activities in (2012), such as: 1) The data should have
Suggestopedia, the students can master a normal distribution. 2) The variance of
more speaking. the sample of group must be
homogenous.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

T
he research was conducted from FINDING AND DISCUSSION

P
March 23rd to April 2nd, 2018. retest Score Analysis
There were some steps in doing The following table can tell mean
this research. First was giving pretest. of score and standard deviation of

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the pretest score from one group sample. Posttest Score Analysis
The following table is the description of
Table 1. Descriptive Statistics on Pretest posttest score.
Score
Std.
N Minimum Maximum Mean Deviation Table 2. Descriptive Statistics on Posttest
Pretest 32 11,00 17,00 13,8095 1,36452
ValidN 32
Score
N Minimum Maximum Mean Std.
(listwise)
Deviation
Posttest 32 9 21 16,1613 2,47786
From the score of pretest, it could Valid N 32
(listwise)
be showed that the highest scoring of
speaking test was 17 and the lowest
Based on the table above, it could
score was 11 with mean 13, 8095.
be showed that the highest score on
Nevertheless the computation above
speaking test was 21 and the lowest
could not represent whether the means
score was 9 with mean 16,16. It was
of the pretest were significantly different.
higher than the mean of pretest.
Therefore paired-sample t-test was
Nevertheless it could not conclude yet
performed to compare the mean both of
that the means were significant.
pretest and posttest

Result of T-Test Computation

Normality of Distribution
The computation of difference
In the test, the level of significance
means between pretest and posttest was
was set up 0.05. Based on table 4.2, it
aimed to find out significant differences
shows the Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed) pretest
between pretest and posttest means.
of data is 0.219. The result suggests that
The mean of pretest score of the class
the null hypothesis is not rejected
was 12.97 with standard deviation 2.041
however the alternative hypothesis is
and the mean of posttest score was 16.16
rejected. Therefore, (H0) is accepted that
with standard deviation 2.478. The
the pretest scores of group are normally
significant difference between means of
distributed. The level of significance in
posttest which is higher than pretest can
the test was established at 0.05.
be seen in the following chart.
Moreover in the table 4.3 the [Link]
was higher than the level of determined
significance (0.05), which also can be Means

stated that 0.916 > 0.05. It indicates that

the null hypothesis is not rejected but the
alternative is rejected. It draws a 16.16
12.97 Posttest
conclusion that the variances data is Pretest
PosttestPretest
homogenous. It also implies that the
analysis of t-test can be conducted since
the data were normally distributed and
Figure 1. Difference Means between Posttest
the variance was homogenous. and Pretest

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The students’ speaking skill on 31 (1.6955). In other words, the null

pretest scores mean improved 3.194 hypothesis was rejected while the
from 12,968 became 16.161 on posttest alternative hypothesis which state that
scores mean. It proves that treating there is significant effect in students’
students by using Suggestopedia method speaking ability after teaching by using
is effective to improve their speaking Suggestopedia is accepted.
ability.
CONCLUSION

A
Table 3. Paired Sample Correlations ccording to the finding and
N Correlation Sig. discussions of the research, the
Pair Pretest & 32 0,574 ,001
1 Posttest conclusion of this study has
proven that Suggestopedia method is
While the table 4.10 (paired effective to increase students’ speaking
sample correlations) above shows the ability. The statistical computation result
result of correlations between the pre- shows that the value of t-test calculation
test and post-test, that is 0,574 and Sig. which showed tobtained is 8.387 was higher
or probability was 0,001. Because Sig. is than tcritical was 1.6955 at level of
lower than the level of significance significance 0.05, with df = 31. For that
(0,000 < 0.05). It means there is positive reason, the null hypothesis was rejected,
correlations between pre-test and post- but the alternative hypothesis which
test on sample of group. stated that there is significance
difference in students’ speaking ability
Data Interpretation after teaching by using Suggestopedia
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