Adrian Buck’s Reviews > Implementing the Lexical Approach: Putting Theory into Practice > Status Update

"Listening is therefore fundamentally better input than reading for mastering the grammatical system of the language...L1" - most grammar is a feature of literacy.

"L1 and L2 learning...must be more similar than different." - Literacy?

"Context, situation and global real world knowledge mean that a very small amount of aural information is sufficient for us to identify what must have been said" - variation in this between languages?

"My position is not that language consists of prefabricated items, but that much more language than we have previously thought is stored and produced in this way."

"The difference between two words of similar meaning is in some cases defined precisely by their different collocational profiles"

"Learn how to identify multi-word items" - how?

Don't "worry about ship/sheep style pronunciation problems" - why not?

"Learners tend to want to understand every word...[this] tends against maximally efficient acquisition." - again quantitative claim where's the quantitative evidence.

"Learning a language involves a small element of factual knowledge, but consists largely of procedural knowledge..." - no, the opposite is true, if you consider that lexis is the factual content of a language.

"We have already seen that learners acquire most efficiently by learning wholes which they later break into parts, for novel reassembly, rather than by learning parts and then facing a completely new task, building those parts into wholes." - well have?