Focusing on the broad topic of reading, the articles in this volume are arranged into the following categories: literature reviews, college and adult education, teacher education, reading research, language, and comprehension. The literature reviews cover the areas of the underlining study aid, learning from text, sex roles and reading instruction, syntax and reading comprehension, reading and the aging process, and grammatical usage and reading. Among the topics dealt with in the remaining sections are: (1) prediction of academic success of special groups of university freshman, (2) integrating reading and study skills into college biology, (3) transferring reading and study skills to the content area, (4) the effects of testwiseness training on reading scores on test anxiety, (5) the relationship between performance and interest in adult education, (6) functional literacy of teacher trainees, (7) relationships in teacher proficiency, (8) the reading of secondary school American Indian students, (9) self-concept in reading instruction programs, (10) conceptual difficulty of reading material, (11) the influence of minority groups in the selection of basal reading programs, (12) the child's conception of a spoken word, (13) recognition of word boundaries by adult second-language subjects, (14) identifying sentence meaning skills, (15) a model for the comprehension of poetry, and (16) the effect of reader generated questions on learning from prose. (FL)