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8th International Symposium on Trilingualism and Trilingual Education in China
& 2016 Annual Conference, Xi’an
The 8th International Symposium on Trilingualism and Trilingual Education in China & 2016 Annual Conference was co-hosted by School of Foreign Languages, Shaanxi Normal University and the Research Center for EFL Education, Shaanxi Normal University from 11th June to 12th June 2016, in Xi’an. The participants of the symposium included more than 40 experts from Britain, South Korean, China, and 50 other teacher researchers and potential postgraduate and undergraduate student researchers from Shaanxi Normal University and the Research Center for EFL Research Center.
The symposium mainly focused upon such themes as theories and practices of trilingual education in China, trilingual teacher education and teacher training, the development and implementation of trilingual education, third language acquisition, and research projects relevant to trilingualism and trilingual education in China. 23 keynote speakers presented and shared their research in this regard.
A board meeting was held in the evening of 12th June. Professor Feng Zhiwen from Yunnan Normal University and Professor Zeng Li from Guizhou Minzu University were admitted as vice-chairmen of the CSMME.
Keynote presentations:
FENG Anwei: A SWOT Analysis of CSMME Research
Bob ADAMSON: Strengthening English as the Medium of Instruction with Multilingual Approaches in the Hong Kong Context
YUAN Yichuan: Linguistic Ecology of Trilingual Education in Tibetan Areas in Yunnan
ZHANG Zhenai & WEN Liting: Cross-linguistic Influence on English Acquisition as L2 and L3
HU Deying: A Survey on Chinese Literacy at the Cross-border Areas of Wan-ding China and Kyugoke Myanmar
MA Fu: Difficulties of the Training of English Teachers from Bilingual Schools
HUANG Binlan: Language Attitude and Ethnic Identity of Zhuang Students in Guangxi
CHOI Taehee: Multilingual Education, Identity and Transnationalism
ZENG Li: Foreign Language Education in Shi Menkan (Guizhou) During Late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China
FENG Anwei: EMI Programmes at Universities for Nationalities in China
LIU Quanguo: An Comparative Research into Tibetan Learners’ Trilingual Attitude toward Tibetan, Chinese and English
WANG Ge: Ethnic Multilingual Education in China: A Critical Observation
WANG Jinjun & SU Lin: Language Attitudes of Yi Students in the Context of Trilingual Education
SHAN Feifei: Investigating Linguistic Landscape in the Ethnic Tourism Village: From the Perspectives of Social Semiotics and Cultural Capital Theory
JIN Wenfu: A Study on the Oral Communication of Chinese Textbooks for Korean Primary and Middle School in China
JIN Xiudong & ZHANG Zhenai: Historical Development of Japanese Education in Korean Schools in Yanbian
LI Qiang: The Significance of the Ethnic Minority’s Trilingual Education Against the Globalization Background
WAN Yongkun: Current Situation and Countermeasures of Trilingual Teachers in Chinese Minority Areas
LIANG Junqing: Language Planning in an Urban Chinese-Mongolian Bilingual Family: An Auto-ethnography
CHANG Yun: The Inter-lingual transference of Mongolian learners’ Third Language Acquisition in Multicultural Context
LI Zengyin: A Research on Metalinguistic Awareness in Third Language Acquisition - A Case Study of Tibetan Junior High School Students
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