Abstract
In recent years, along with the development of Chinese economy, the Chinese government pays more attention to English education in ethnic minority areas. Chinese ethnic minority EFL learners’ passion has reached an unprecedented level. Nevertheless, a series of complicated factors affect Chinese ethnic minority EFL learners’ English pronunciation learning. 
 
 The paper adopts an in-depth interview method among Yi ethnic minority EFL learners in Leshan Normal University, and analyzes the main factors that affect learners’ English pronunciation learning. Finally, the paper draws a conclusion to trigger the further study.
Highlights
China is one of the largest countries in the world, with nearly 1.4 billion population (World Statistics, 2019)
For Yi ethnic minority EFL learners, English pronunciation is with many difficulties compared to Han majority EFL learners’
Two Yi ethnic minority students have the subconscious of their own national characteristics, which has the rejection psychology to the whole foreign language learning, and prevents the foreign language input, which directly affects the learning state of English pronunciation
Summary
China is one of the largest countries in the world, with nearly 1.4 billion population (World Statistics, 2019). It is consisted of 56 ethnic groups, including 55 ethnic minorities and the dominant Han. Among them, 93% of the Chinese people are Han. 7% of the Chinese people are the non-Han Chinese, we call them ethnic minority (Ethnic Groups in China, 2019). It is worthwhile to do an in-depth interview in order to analyze the main factors that affect Yi ethnic minority learners’ English pronunciation learning It will help teachers design and organize teaching in order to help students overcome these difficulties effectively
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