This is the second annual listing of graduate theses and dissertations in English as a second language (ESL). The studies cited here were completed during the academic year 1976-77. 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 chairmen from among more than 50 institutions in the United States and Canada that are known to have graduate programs in ESL. Each of the 116 entries provide 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 the following headings: (1) Adult Education; (2) Applied Linguistics; (3) Bilingualism; (4) Contrastive Studies; (5) Culture; (6) Curriculum; (7) Grammar; (8) Materials; (9) Methods; (10) Phonology; (11) Profession; (12) Psycholinguistics; (13) Reading; (14) Research; (15) Second Dialect; (16) Second Language Learning; (17) Sociolinguistics; (18) Testing; (19) Vocabulary-Usage; and (20) Writing. (Author/AM)