The grammar translation analyis of language is in its death throes. We finally get that humans cannot possibly learn languages by consciously talking about them. The world is no longer flat. In this round, not flat, world, we have upward space (the conscious mind) and then we have deeper, downward, space (the unconscious mind).
People who write foreign language textbooks, who teach via grammar translation largely in the upward space through the use of English, who prefer speaking to students about the language instead of speaking the language itself, are finally getting that their approach doesn’t work. That’s the only way to say it. Krashen did this. The textbook people, in particular, are toast.
That’s a good thing. We can now turn all of our attention, those who will, to the downward space, where the language is actually learned. We can turn our attention to learning how to teach languages so that students are not aware of the language but rather on the message being delivered, thus freeing the mind to do what it is wired to do, which is to acquire the language without being aware of it.
The unconscious mind is a vast field of infinitely complex and varying neurological activity. It is where language acquisition actually occurs, in a non linear, non logic-based, environment. Language is far too complex for linear analysis and memorization activities.
To try to make language acquisition into a conscious, analytical, linear activity is absurd. It would be like trying to teach yoga from a book, without having the students actual move into any asanas.
See also:
https://benslavic.com/blog/?p=7385
https://benslavic.com/blog/?p=7296
https://benslavic.com/blog/?p=7387