DOMINIC W. MASSARO, editor
University of California, Santa Cruz

One Language Is Not Enough

Handbook of Undergraduate Second Language Education
Edited by Judith W. Rosenthal. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2000. 380 pp. Paper, $99.95.

This book has an ambitious goal: to give an overview of the undergraduate second language acquisition programs in the United States and other countries. Judith Rosenthal made every effort to keep the focus on college students as adult second language learners. Occasionally, however, information about K–12 students is also included. It is argued that in the United States students who study second languages do so for increasingly diverse reasons; they also enter the language classroom with wide range of previous language experience. The rationale for language study is no longer just to fulfill general education requirements or to obtain a language major. Students understand that additional languages will be useful in their professional and personal lives. That is why the book encompasses so many different kinds of programs.