This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 14 titles deal with the following topics: (1) identifying gifted limited Engish speaking Indochinese third, fourth, and fifth grade students; (2) a successful inner city classroom; (3) interactional factors affecting access of black kindergarten students to participation structures and reading information; (4) a generic model for planning and evaluating basic skills programs in language arts for secondary school students; (5) transfer of beginning reading skills from Spanish to English among Spanish-speaking children in second grade bilingual classrooms; (6) a cultural approach to the study of attitudes and admission to literacy; (7) reading instruction in four urban third grade classrooms; (8) effectiveness in preaching; (9) the impact of a workshop approach on the process of composing expository writing for twelfth grade inner city college-bound students; (10) bilingual education to meet proficiency standards; (11) speech recoding and the reading process; (12) measuring the performance of nonstandard English speakers in an inner city high school; (13) the relationship between integrative motivation and standard English in black dialect speaking high school students; and (14) the assessment of inner city high school student writing. (FL)