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This article gives an overview of Greg Thomson's approach to self-directed language learning. It describes four key principles underlying Thomson's approach: communing, understanding, talking, and evolving, and then describes five simples activities based on these principles. This information will give you a good overview of Thomson's developmental approach to self-directed language learning.

Here are the main sections of this book:

• Some Background Principles
• The Simple Activities
• Odds and Ends

Here are the sections after the main part of this book:

• Author note
• Dedication

• Article: A Few Simple Ideas for New Language Learners: ... and old ones needing some new life, by Ambrose Thomson, Angela Thomson, Chad Thomson, and Greg Thomson
• In document collection: Essays on Field Language Learning, by Greg Thomson
• In bookshelf: Language Learning

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

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