Decline in Russian Studies Survey: Results

[Pavel Samsonov]

Dear SEELANGers!

As you know, earlier this year I conducted an on-line survey "Decline in Russian Studies".

I have received 125 replies, 116 of which were in the "Decline" section, 5 were in the "Increase" section and 4 in the "The same level" section. 

Thank you all ever so much for your participation! Some replies are pages long!

The data are vast. There is no way to put it up on the listserv. I have finally got to work on it (I had some objective and subjective reason to start only two weeks ago).

Now the data are in the readable form: I put the data in Word. I am currently processing the statistics and comments and working on the content analysis. 

I promised to share the results with the listmembers. If you want to get the "raw" data (actual number of replies, assessment clicks and all the comments), you are most welcome to e-mail me off-list at psamsonov at yahoo.com I will be happy to e-mail you the file.

Be prepared that the file is big: 81K. It runs for more than 22 pages. Anyway, it is perfectly readable and incredibly interesting.
I would appreciate your comments.

On a personal note: I am leaving the list. I will still be getting all the messages on my separate account though, so I will be always in the course of events. My career as a language teacher seems to be over: I defended my dissertation in November and got a job at the University of Louisiana as an Assistant Professor teaching Educational Technology (mainly computer stuff).

It was very nice to participate in the discussions.

Please contact me if you have any other questions. Please use my psamsonov at yahoo.com address, because I believe that my Texas A&M account will be shut down pretty soon.

Best,

Pavel Samsonov

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