James Asher is a linguist who has studied language acquisition. In the late 1960's he began trying to understand how people learn languages. Asher had a background in psychology. He wrote a book titled "Learning another language through actions" (now in its 7th print edition; see http://www.tpr-world.com/). His discoveries and teaching methods have changed the way teachers teach modern languages. TPR (Total Physical Response) and TPRS (its descendant, Teaching Proficiency Through Reading (and) Storytelling) have been instrumental in getting thousand of students proficient in a second language. Both Randall Buth and Christophe Rico have been strongly influenced by Asher's work.
Paul Nitz, one of our B-Greek participants who teaches Greek to students in Malawi, has a blog post on Asher's book on the Biblical Languages blog (Randall Buth's blog). The blog is intended to be a springboard and discussion on how TPR and Asher's approach to teaching languages (not just a method) can help students and teachers internalize that dead language called Koine Greek.
If you have read Asher's book, or are looking for a better way to internalize or to get students to internalize their Greek, you may want to read the blog and chime in on the discussion of Asher's book and methodology. The blog can be found at http://www.biblicallanguagecenter.com/eureka-approach-greek/.
