This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. Among the topics covered in the 31 titles are the following: the oral English syntax of bilingual Indian children in Manitoba, Canada; linguistic style shifting in black English; oral language assessment by sentence repetition; environmental influences on patterns of communication in a black community; second language acquisition among Hispanic children in a bilingual program; language dominance and bilingual education; reading and dialect; dialect speaking children's use of contextual and graphic information in learning to read; oral English proficiency of Mexican-American migrant students; the acquisition of four black English morphological rules by black preschool children; Afro-American culture/cognition relations; techniques for teaching English to non-English speaking elementary school children; black American children's signing games; expressed reading preferences of Mexican-American children; the interpretation of verb tense in written passages by black English-speaking and standard-English-speaking children; black students' and white faculty members' perceptions of black students' classroom communication; oral language gains in a French-English bilingual education program; reading interests expressed by black adolescents in response to a biracial annotated fictitious titles survey; and reading miscues of Spanish-surnamed readers. (FL)