Abstract
Through the questionnaire and interview, this paper carries out research on the Mongolian English majors in Inner Mongolia University for the Nationalities (IMUN), and these research studies are designed to reflect their recognition of their native culture and the English culture after they started to learn English. Results indicate that Mongolian English majors in IMUN have preserved and inherited the traditions in their native culture and showed recognition of the cultural identity of their ethnic group. At the same time, some influences from the English culture have also managed to seep into their behavioral and thinking patterns gradually. They show positive attitudes towards both their native culture and the English culture in terms of language learning and cultural inheritance and protection.
Highlights
Cultural Identity is defined as the identity of a group or culture or an individual’s recognition of the group or culture to which he/she belongs due to its influences (Liu, 2000)
Mongolian English Majors in Inner Mongolia University for the Nationalities (IMUN) are a special group because of their trilingual and multicultural background
Their mother-tongue is Mongolia and they own their arts and traditional customs. Do they experience any cultural identity changes after they started to learn English? If they do, to what extent? this paper focuses on relationships between Mongolian English Majors’ cultural identity and their English learning, aiming to find out their cultural identity status and whether “productive bilingualism” exists in the Mongolian English Majors in Inner Mongolia University for the Nationalities
Summary
Cultural Identity is defined as the identity of a group or culture or an individual’s recognition of the group or culture to which he/she belongs due to its influences (Liu, 2000). As a positive judgment of cultural value, cultural identity refers to the attitude and method with which a cultural group or members in a culture recognize the value effect of a new culture in this group or an exogenous cultural factor as conforming to the value standards of traditional culture (Ren, 2008). Mongolian English Majors in IMUN are a special group because of their trilingual and multicultural background Their mother-tongue is Mongolia and they own their arts and traditional customs. This paper focuses on relationships between Mongolian English Majors’ cultural identity and their English learning, aiming to find out their cultural identity status and whether “productive bilingualism” exists in the Mongolian English Majors in Inner Mongolia University for the Nationalities. It is hoped that this research would enrich and benefit Minority English Majors’ English teaching and improve their intercultural communication competence
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