This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 12 titles deal with the following topics: a television course designed to improve community college students' writing skills; Christian humanism and the teaching of English; a folklore curriculum for junior high school students using Ghanaian folklore; an analysis of the components of the job of teaching college English; the status of humanities courses in Virginia secondary schools; the use of visual and audiovisual aids in the teaching of English; the interaction of teacher verbal aptitude and personality characteristics with pupil verbal ability and achievement; an analysis of the discourse structure of the English classroom; the Personal Sources Model of teaching, designed to make teaching a conscious activity; a model curriculum for community college-bound high school English students; innovative methods for teaching creative writing and literature; and the background of the first national curriculum report in the United States, the "Report of the Committee of Ten" (1892), and its Conference on English. (GW)