This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 10 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the effects of bilingual memory on learning vocabulary through the device of semantic mapping; (2) native American and Anglo use of compliance-gaining strategies; (3) learning style preference and reading achievement of urban Alaskan native students; (4) prospective secondary school teachers' responses to student use of black English in written compositions; (5) reading, readability, and the ESL reader; (6) the effects of semantic mapping on vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension of black inner city students; (7) the behaviors accompanying the writing process in selected third and fourth grade native American children; (8) dialect usage and function word acquisition as related to readiness for formal school curriculum; (9) factors influencing the offering of minority literature in Colorado high schools; and (10) linguistic cues used by elementary school bilingual and monolingual readers. (HOD)