Judith Rosenthal has brought together a wide variety of articles on second language (L2)
teaching and learning that will surely interest foreign language (FL) educators in U.S. universities
who are struggling to increase or maintain enrollment in their courses or who are seeking new
ideas to meet the needs and demands of an increasingly diverse student population. Rather than
encourage individual language departments to continue their separate battles for survival,
Rosenthal hopes to enhance the “integration” of FL programs in order “to
better promote proficiency in more than one language” (p. 353). This volume clearly
illustrates how teachers of various languages can collaborate and share experiences in order to
find solutions to what are often very similar problems.