This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 12 titles deal with the following topics: correlates of reading achievement in Mexican-American children; Latino communication patterns; the semantic distance and semantic judgment of English monolingual and Spanish/English bilingual students; the effect of Choctaw and non-Choctaw teachers' perceptions of Choctaw students on student reading achievement; the acquisition of grammatical structures by a Mexican-American child learning English; story recall in black and white children; linguistic and cultural characteristics of families of Mexican descent; legendary narratives inherited by children of Mexican-American ancestry; attitudes of native and nonnative speakers toward varieties of American English; the effect of supplementary individualized instruction upon the reading achievement of Mexican-American migrant students; communicative competence among children in a bilingual school environment; and the language proficiency of bidialectals in reading and aural comprehension processes. (GW)