Language learning through music on the academic achievement, creative thinking, and self-esteem of the English as a foreign language (EFL) learners

Chen, Meng; Mohammadi, Mohammad; Izadpanah, Siros

doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104318

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“…The known learning methods are divided into nine categories: Oral approach and situational language teaching, grammar translation method, audio-lingual method, communicative language teaching, total physical response method, silent way, community language learning, direct method, and suggestopedia (Intarapanich, 2013). Research has shown that Suggestopedia is a learning method that can influence learning outcomes (Dawolo et al, 2023;Chen et al, 2024;Houser & Yang, 2024). The suggestopedia method has the advantage of increasing student interest and creativity (Adani & Efendi, 2016) while also making the lesson more effective (Suyadi, 2021).…”

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Suggestopedia to Improve Students’ Ability in Retelling Short Stories

Yan Na,

Nurhayati,

Sri Indrawati

2024

IJLLT

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The objective of this study was to determine the effect of the suggestopedia method on students' capacity to retell short tale passages. The research method adopted was quasi-experimental. Students in class IX at Maitreyawira Middle School in Palembang served as the research subjects. The study included two classes: 27 students in the control class and 27 students in the experimental class. The research findings revealed that the average experimental score during the pretest was 65.93, but the average posttest score was 87.85. Meanwhile, the research findings revealed that the control class had an average pretest score of 68.15 and an average posttest score of 80.96. The Independent Samples Test yielded a significance value of 0.000 < 0.05. Thus, Ha claimed that the suggestopedia method influenced students' ability to retell short story texts.

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