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: alternative views of the English curriculum; development of curriculum theory and language arts; sentence combining; vocabulary development; the effect of music and sound effects on listening comprehension; the interrelationships among reading, listening, and personality; the relationship of student/teacher compatibility to student achievement in language arts; induced mental imagery technique and prose learning for adolescents; phoneme-grapheme knowledge and spelling ability; auditory distraction at varying intensities and listening and reading abilities; listening-thinking tasks in selected language arts materials; interdisciplinary possibilities in undergraduate English; cognition, comprehension, and composition; the role of the secondary school English department chairperson in improving English instruction; the integration of English skills into the business-education curriculum of public postsecondary schools; and the effects of peer tutoring on spelling achievement scores. (FL)