My general argument will be that a model of language relevant to educational
purposes should focus on language in use in connected discourse. I
will review .some general issues concerning the relation between linguistics
and teacher-training, and then discuss two very different in-service teachertraining
courses which I have prepared, discussing the theoretical rationale
behind the courses, which lies in recent work on discourse analysis. Finally, I
will review some applications of discourse analysis in teaching both the
mother tongue and foreign languages.