This article explains how a learner-centred approach works on “Talkbase”, an eight-week workshop in language and technology at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand. It includes an account of how the participants and the author, who were accustomed to traditional, teacher-dominated language instruction, coped with a new educational experience in which participants carried out tasks, learned through active investigation, developed concepts and skills, and gained confidence to express themselves in English. It describes how the participants supply their own content through the framework provided by the teacher. It also explains how a variety of learning opportunities where learners can exercise initiative were provided and how the tasks were sequenced offering opportunities to the learners to process their experiences. The author describes her observation of the program with doubts at the beginning but with delight at the end. This article's primary objectives are to describe how the approach used on “Talkbase” operates in practice and to share the author's experience with language teachers and other language practitioners.