PJER, Vol 4, Issue 1 (2021) Is neuro linguistic… 368 IS NEUROLINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING A MYTH? A REVIEW OF NLP STUDIES Faiza Zeb Research Scholar, Certified NLP Practitioner from American Board of NLP, Virginia, USA Email: faizamunaee66@hotmail.com Ansa Hameed Assistant Professor, Department of English, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Alkharj, KSA Email: a.zahoor@psau.edu.sa Shaista Zeb Assistant Professor, Department of English, NUML Punjab, Pakistan Email: szeb@numl.edu.pk ------------------------------------------------------------ ABSTRACT NLP has not been able to gain the status of a scientific model since its emergence in 1970’s with certain reservations by the experts in the various fields such as educators, linguists, English language teachers, and scientists. Despite the fact that more than fifty organizations are working in the UK solely on NLP, there are only a few conversations and studies available on the subject due to mere supposition about the lack of scientific support for its existence. In NLP history, much work has been ignored due to mere speculation. Also, many researchers did not pay any attention to the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of the NLP ideas and researches via ignoring various studies in this filed. This article has aimed at the exploration of NLP via various studies in diverse fields dealing with the varied aspects of NLP toolkit to illustrate the mammoth significance it holds. The research circumspectly examines the fundamental role that NLP plays in education, sports, health, and English language teaching practices that is beyond the claims of experts who declare it a pseudoscience. KEYWORDS NLP, education, English language teaching, other fields