About language learning With regard to the chunking approach in the classroom, a grammar specialist warns us not to go overboard. He acknowledges that memorizing essential collocations and fixed phrases is justified to a certain extent, but any language learner will get sidelined if he does not also prioritize grammar, vocabulary and other traditional aspects of language learning. He thinks that people are deluded into believing that with the new chunks method, they could reach a language competence/command similar to that of a native speaker. However, no matter what critics say, data-driven corpus linguistics is here to stay and will certainly be the basis for teaching English in coming years.