This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 29 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the language in a Spanish bilingual reading classroom; (2) the early stages of language acquisition of black children; (3) the dependency relation between oral language and reading in bilingual Chinese children; (4) language acquisition of Hispanic third grade students; (5) the effect of kindergarten classrooms where standard English is spoken on the speech of Black English speaking children; (6) the effects of early and delayed second language acquisition on the English composition skills of Spanish speaking junior high school students; (7) the composing processes of three black adolescents; (8) linguistic-cognitive skills in the low-income black child; (9) English comprehension scores obtained by Mexican-American elementary school children; (10) variation in speech by children in Hawaii; (11) sociolinguistic aspects of English diversity among elementary school aged students from Laguna Pueblo (New Mexico); and (12) the speech of lower-income black drug abusers. (GT)