“This…raises the question of as to whether language learning benefits most from focusing on a few problematic linguistic forms intensively or from a scatter-gun approach where multitudinous problematic forms are treated randomly and cursorily and where the treatment may or may not be repeated” Rod Ellis, no less, supporting me in my fight against the “pick a text and explain all the stuff comes up” technique of English teaching*. Quoted in Nassaji and Fotos in Form- focused Instruction and  Teacher Education (OUP, 2007)

*Okay, okay, Rod Ellis almost certainly doesn’t even know I exist. This quote does give me some pretty heavy duty and up-to-date support for what I am saying though.