tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37309767.post4209049111194077084..comments2024-01-04T13:54:21.297+04:00Comments on Social Science in the Caucasus: Young people are learning English in GeorgiaHansGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02363857450625734125noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37309767.post-29037413128132235462019-10-06T10:56:45.605+04:002019-10-06T10:56:45.605+04:00This blog post is set up in kind of a strange way,...This blog post is set up in kind of a strange way, comparing "no basic knowledge" of English to intermediate and advanced knowledge of Russian.<br /><br />If one compares intermediate and advanced knowledge of English and intermediate knowledge of Russian among young people using the same dataset, then, as in past CRRC polls, Russian knowledge among the young remains higher than English (53% to 39%), and those numbers don't significantly change over the past several years of polling.<br /><br />Even the dip in "no basic knowledge" for English that this post shows for 2019 doesn't seem that significant (given the usual confidence intervals for a poll of this sort), and those numbers seem notably steady going back to 2013 at least.<br /><br />In short, while younger people are clearly learning English more and Russian less, according to the CRRC data the much anticipated English breakthrough (especially vis Russian) among the youth has yet to show itself.<br /><br />Timothy BlauveltTimothy Blauvelthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01514843564661118488noreply@blogger.com