The process of any second or foreign language teaching includes ‘selection,’ ‘grading,’ and ‘presentation’ as the major steps, and applied linguistics plays an instrumental role in the teaching process.By Jilani WarsiEnglish is taught in Bangladesh under conditions which are far from being satisfactory and are certainly not keeping abreast with cutting-edge research in English language pedagogy. The English language plays a prominent role in Bangladesh as a lingua franca – a common means of communication – besides Bengali and a host of regional languages and numerous dialects – as a global language, and an easy medium for science and technology. However, it is a fact that despite studying English in schools and colleges for about 6-8 years, Bengali-speaking students, especially coming from rural backgrounds, are not able to communicate in English with relative ease and success. Even in so...