Eric Nicaise

Eric Nicaise is a lecturer and teacher trainer in Dutch and English at University College Louvain-en-Hainaut, and a scientific collaborator at Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. His doctoral thesis focused on a corpus-informed analysis of teacher talk in the EFL classroom, and he has recently published a book on this topic (Native and Non-native Teacher Talk in the EFL Classroom: A corpus-informed study. Routledge, 2021). He has delivered talks all over Europe. His other research interests include teacher professionalism, English phonology and bridging the gap between research and the EFL classroom. [email protected]

To drill or not to drill

This article describes the way language learning and teaching have developed over the centuries and how aspects of different techniques and methods can easily be merged into one holistic approach.