Study on the Foreign Language Education for the Ethnic Minorities in Northern China from the Perspective of Trilingual Acquisition

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10.2991/cesses-18.2018.10How to use a DOI?

Keywords

trilingual acquisition; ethnic minorities in northern China; foreign language education

Abstract

Ethnic minorities in northern China have a positive attitude towards trilingual education, which is favorable for the foreign language education there. Compared with “bilingual acquisition”, “trilingual acquisition” shows the characteristics of language attrition and reversal, the complexity of interdependence, and the cognitive superiority of languages. The complicated cognitive process of trilingual acquisition leads to the particularity of the educational process. By analyzing the problems met by the minority students in the process of foreign language learning in northern China, educators are suggested to make full use of the bilingual advantages of the minorities, pay close attention to preserve their language proficiency and carry out the study of interlingual transfer, so as to promote the foreign language education in this area.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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