Why not? Because – as the psychologist above said – everything that you remember...

Why not? Because – as the psychologist above said – everything that you remember and forget depends on attention. The more dispersed the attention, the less likelihood of remembering, while the more heightened the attention, the better the remembering, and hence the better the learning. This is as true for language learning as for any other kind of learning. As psycholinguists Nick Ellis and Peter Robinson {2008: 3} put it: 'What is attended is learned, and so attention controls the acquisition of language itself.' Likewise, Dick Schmidt {2001: 16} argues that only through the exercise of attention is input converted to intake: 'Unattended stimuli persist in immediate short-term memory for only a few seconds at best,

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