Trilingual Education of Uyghur Children

Given the differences in the orthographic structure of the Uyghur, Chinese, and English languages, this study used a mixed-method approach to systematically describe and analyze the phonological awareness of Uyghur bilingual children as English learners and its contributions to their trilingual literacy acquisition and development.

Auteur

Wei Xiaobao is Professor at the East China University of Science and Technology. Currently, he is Director of Institute of Foreign Languages, Director of Cognitive Neurolinguistics Laboratory and a research expert of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education. His research interests include children's literacy development, bilingual education and second language acquisition.