This report is designed to aid the college instructor preparing prospective English teachers in the area of dialect studies. It includes a general description of the nature of dialect, teaching suggestions, and an extensive annotated bibliography. The articles which make up the report are as follows: "Historical, Regional and Social Variation" by Raven I. McDavid, Jr.; "The Study of Dialects" by N. Louanna Furbee; "Suggestions for Teaching American Dialects" by A. L. Davis; "Problem Areas in Grammar" by William Card and Virginia Glenn McDavid; "Speech Samples of Disadvantaged Children" by N. Louanna Furbee, Emily Pettigrew Norris, and Dagna Simpson; "Abbreviated Checklist of Lexical Items in Dialects" by A. L. Davis; and "A Checklist of Significant Features for Discriminating Social Dialects" by Raven I. McDavid, Jr. (Author)