Socio-Cultural Factors Determining the Choice of a Foreign Language (Russian Language and French Youth)
Child Welfare Program coordinator assistant, interpreterNovgorod Regional Branch of the Russian Non-Governmental Organization Russian Red Cross (Veliky Novgorod, Russia)Master of Research in Sociology (French University College in Saint-Petersburg, University of Poitiers)Veliky Novgorod, Russiae-mail: konstantin.shorokhov@gmail.comThis paper results from a study carried out within the framework of the master’s thesis defended at the University of Poitiers in 2013. The article presents an overview of the socio -cultural factors that deter-mine the choice of Russian as a foreign language in public and private schools in France.