This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 16 titles deal with a variety of topics including the following: (1) a descriptive survey of the attitudes and perceptions of speech communication faculty concerning computers and computer assisted instruction; (2) a planned course reading component; (3) practical knowledge of language in teaching; (4) an investigation of reading specialists in education; (5) reading teachers' reactions to a field test of a computer assisted instruction reading program; (6) secondary English methods courses; (7) the relation of the elementary school principal to the improvement of reading; (8) the influence of oral language transactions on developing literacy; (9) the socialization of beginning elementary school teachers; (10) an analysis of secondary teachers' conceptions of reading; (11) the effects of using an instruction strategy based on schema theory; (12) the effect of a feedback system on teacher performance in writing conferences; (13) teacher feedback and practices during guided oral reading; and (14) the attitudes of non-English faculty toward the teaching of writing. (EL)