Introductory Articles
A Little Invitation to the Growing Participator Approach
The Growing Participator Approach (GPA): A Brief State of the Art and Some Practical Illustrations
Introduction to the Socio-cultural Dimension of Language Learning
Six Phase Program – background philosophy
ILR Levels and 6 Phrase Program
First Phase
First 100 Hours (Phase1A Guide)
First 100 Hours (Phase1B Guide)
Graphic Resources: First 100 Hours
Second Phase
List of Processes Useful for Series Descriptions
Third Phase
Phase 3 Manual — Getting Going in Phase 3
Fourth Phase
Phase 4 — The Big Middle Phase
Fifth Phase
Sixth Phase
Other Helpful Documents
500 Words that can be Learned from TPR
Spiraling Outward: What to learn first
Talking Tasks by Order of Difficulty
Thoughts on Arabic Diglossia From the Growing Participator Perspective
Teaching MSA and Colloquial Arabic
Resources in other Languages
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November 25th, 2011 at 2:36 pm
[…] I’m discouraged with language learning I read articles over at the Language Impact and other articles by the same authors. I also buy new books or try new strategies. I evaluate where I am, and make new goals and try to […]
December 1st, 2011 at 12:55 pm
[…] my hours of scheduled Hebrew speaking I’ll primarily be using the Growing Participator Approach. GA_googleAddAttr("AdOpt", "1"); GA_googleAddAttr("Origin", "other"); […]
January 19th, 2013 at 2:06 am
[…] Resources […]
January 20th, 2013 at 1:14 am
[…] of the most encouraging articles I read when I started to study Korean was an article by Greg Thomson with the cheery title — What? Me Worry about Language […]
February 6th, 2013 at 2:03 am
In the phase 1 lesson plans, it keeps referring to a resource packet with a shopping list and several other things included, but I can’t find it anywhere in the English materials. I found it on Thomson’s dropbox in French, but if you have it in English, that would be a great addition to the resource page. Thanks.
September 10th, 2013 at 9:04 pm
Anno – contact me if you need a copy of the shopping list. I can send it to you via email. I have LOTS of resources… 🙂
March 12th, 2016 at 4:22 pm
I would love a shopping list. We borrowed a friends toys for level 1 as we were learning Arabic. Now we will be tackling another language and need to make our own set. send to “tastiness@generalmail.net” thanks, Becky
December 19th, 2016 at 5:20 pm
I would love to have a list! Please do send it to me. I’ll contact you by email.
August 11th, 2014 at 3:15 pm
[…] are all kinds of language learning methods. LAMP (Language Acquisition Made Practical), GPA (Growing Participator Approach), community education classes, hiring tutors. Some methods require […]
August 12th, 2014 at 5:03 am
[…] are all kinds of language learning methods. LAMP (Language Acquisition Made Practical), GPA (Growing Participator Approach), community education classes, hiring tutors. Some methods require […]
September 13th, 2014 at 4:45 am
Very fascinating material!
June 25th, 2015 at 12:52 am
Hi Greg
I was discussing your methods with a young Arabic learner last night.
It reminded me that I haven’t discussed the Hope ESL curriculum with you yet.
Would you be able to download it
http://www.hopedownload.com/
(It’s big!)
And maybe discuss it with me.
Thanks for all your work
July 5th, 2015 at 5:14 pm
[…] As I’m not living in a context where Samburu is spoken, using the methods suggested by the GPA approach might not be easy to translate to something I can easily use. But I will certainly look more into the ideas and methods of GPA. […]
November 4th, 2015 at 11:26 am
[…] GPA, while an approach, is based on some important philosophies of language and entails a number of different methods. In order to explain GPA, I’ll break it down into its philosophies, approaches and methods. (Note that the following is my summary of GPA, and not an official representation of it. For more information on GPA, see Greg Thomson’s writings, which are available online.) […]
November 4th, 2015 at 11:48 am
[…] GPA meine eigene ist und keine offizielle Repräsentation. Für mehr Informationen über GPA lest Greg Thomsons Schriften, die online verfügbar sind. […]
November 10th, 2015 at 4:09 pm
[…] GPA, plus qu’une approche, est basée sur certaines philosophies importantes de la langue et est composée de différentes méthodes. Pour expliquer GPA, il est important de la décomposer dans ses philosophies, ses approches et ses méthodes. (Notez que ce qui suit est un résumé personnel de GPA, et non une représentation officielle de celle-ci. Pour plus d’informations sur les GPA, voir les écrits de Greg Thomson, qui sont disponibles en ligne.) […]
May 29th, 2016 at 11:44 pm
Hi,
Do you know of any GPA training intensive courses that will be held this summer? My husband and I are interested in learning how to learn a language via GPA when we move abroad. Thanks!
July 6th, 2016 at 12:28 am
There are a new series of videoclips at growingparticipation.com (password mygpajourney) that demonstrate various of the techniques involved in the Phase 1 games and also provide some of the conceptual background for the GPA.
December 19th, 2016 at 5:14 pm
Oh thank you! That looks very cool!
August 9th, 2016 at 12:00 pm
phase 2 goals (above) goes to a 404 page
September 1st, 2016 at 2:42 pm
[…] GPA, while an approach, is based on some important philosophies of language and entails a number of different methods. In order to explain GPA, I’ll break it down into its philosophies, approaches and methods. (Note that the following is my summary of GPA, and not an official representation of it. For more information on GPA, see Greg Thomson’s writings, which are available online.) […]
September 24th, 2016 at 8:53 pm
[…] GPA meine eigene ist und keine offizielle Repräsentation. Für mehr Informationen über GPA lest Greg Thomsons Schriften, die online verfügbar sind. […]