Attn High School Russian Teachers

[Tom Dolack]

Dear colleagues:

I am currently working on an article for the Pacific Northwest Council for
Foreign Languges’ newsletter on dropping enrollment in Russian programs. My
main focus is on high schools, but this obviously touches on college
programs as well. I’m particularly focusing, not surprisingly, on the
Pacific NW. I would greatly appreciate it if I would hear from some of the
teachers on this list about the state of their respective programs. The
following questions are of especial moment:

1) What size is your program – how many classes, how many students? Has your
program grown or shrunk over the past few years? Over the past few decades?

2) Do you have the support of the administration?

3) Is Russian your main are of focus of teaching, or is it considered a side
bar?

4) Why do your students take Russian? Do they continue with it in college?

5) What is the general availability of Russian programs in your area?

Any other comments, quotes or anecdotes will be gladly accepted. If there’s
general interest, I’ll post the link to the article when it’s done. Please
respond off-list.

Spasibo za pomoshch',

Tom Dolack
REESC/Yamada Language Center
University of Oregon
tdolack at darkwing.uoregon.edu





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