An introduction to applied linguistics : Approaches and methods in language teaching. By Roger T. Bell. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981. Pp. 270.

Part 1 Syllabus design - the key issues: a few questions and several answers designing training programmes three types of language syllabus. Part 2 A century of controversy in language teaching: the turn of the century formalism in linguistics and its influence on language teaching functionalism in linguistics and its linguistic influence on language teaching beyond the sentence - implicatons for linguistics and language teaching. Appendices: job analysis and ESP - case study on the canteen assistant contrastive analysis and error analysis language testing language teaching materials.