This book is intended for university and college students who are taking a course in English teaching methods, applied linguistic and curriculum development, it is also a useful reference book for teachers in schools, curriculum and examination specialist, lectures in colleges of education, standards officers or inspectors of schools and university teacher educators. The book covers the nature of language as content of English; the manner in which children acquire language; the strategies the learners employ to learn a second language; the difference in meaning of the terms 'approach', 'method' and 'technique';the types o language teaching methods and approaches; curriculum principles for designing English as a second language course including learning theories, the financial, human and material resources; the preparations of instructional materials, for example, the curriculum document, the syllabus, the pupils book, the teachers guide; the schemes of work and a lesson plan.