This is the sixth annual listing of graduate theses and dissertations in English as a second language (ESL). The studies cited were completed during the academic year 1980-81. The listing is intended to provide graduate students and others doing research in ESL and related fields with specific, comprehensive data on current graduate-level studies. Information was contributed by program directors, graduate advisers, and department chairpersons from the institutions in the United States and Canada that are known to have graduate programs in ESL. Each of the 61 entries provides the writer's name, thesis or dissertation title, degree earned, university, year degree was granted, name of thesis adviser, department or program, and writer's address. In addition, most entries include summaries of abstracts prepared by the writers. Entries are listed under 13 headings: adult education, bilingualism, contrastive studies and language analysis, culture, curriculum, grammar, methods and materials, phonology, psycholinguistics, reading and vocabulary, second language learning, sociolinguistics, and testing. (Author/AMH).