These abridged proceedings of the conference on "Languages for Special Purposes" define and clarify organizational and linguistic difficulties arising in the provision of "service" courses in England and encourage coordination of existing research and development. Four major areas are presented: (1) D.C. Kiddy and W. Grauberg discuss current problems and practices in foreign language teaching; (2) N. Denison and D. Van Abbe comment on problems of combined degree courses and of intercalated periods of study or training abroad; (3) J.L.M. Trim and R. Hartley examine linguistics and curriculum planning; and (4) M.A.K. Halliday reviews existing research and future work. Material on recent and current research, a selective bibliography, and a listing of members of the conference are found in the appendixes. (RL)