“During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, a revolution took place that affected much of the language teaching used in the twentieth century. The revolt was primarily against the stultifying methods of grammatical explanation and translation of texts which were then popular [...]. In its place, the pioneers of the new language teaching [...] emphasized [...] the naturalness of language learning” (COOK, 2013, p.3).

This new proposal generated some common assumptions that have been considered questionable in the past recent years.

Choose the alternative that DOES NOT correspond to any of these assumptions: