 Butzkamm and Caldwell's (2009) call for a paradigm shift is in line with Hall and Cook's conclusion in their state-of-the-art article (2012, 299) that “the way is open for a major paradigm shift in language teaching and learning”.However, in Butzkamm's “informed monolingualism”, not a single monolingual technique, simple or sophisticated, is thrown out.Bilingual techniques are clearly intended to enrich existing methodologies, and not to impoverish them.