Abstract
<p>As we all know, China is a country with many ethnic minorities mainly living in the northeastern and southwestern China. The English education in the primary schools in these areas is an important issue. The article analyzes the status quo of English education in primary schools in minor ethnic areas, taking the Leshan city, a western one as an example, and then proposes some suggestions of enhancing English education in primary schools in minor ethnic areas.</p>
Highlights
The city of Leshan is located in Sichuan province in the southwest of China, 120 kilometers away from its capital –Chengdu
The English education in primary school has become the center of the English Teaching Reform in China because it is an important stage for Chinese pupils to lay a great foundations for the learning in the future, whether in high school or in the college
In the minor ethnic areas most primary schools pay special attention to the Chinese and mathematics education because most of them believe if you can learn both well, you can do anything in china, so they are unwilling to invest in the English education given the financially-poor ability of the local government
Summary
The city of Leshan is located in Sichuan province in the southwest of China, 120 kilometers away from its capital –Chengdu. All its population is not more than one million with the ethnic minorities living in the west mountainous areas of the city. They are mainly the Yi people with the lower living standard, let alone the English education. The Yi people live in the western area of Leshan, such as E’Bian County and Ma Bian County. These areas are hard to approach except the bus commuting between these rural areas and the center district. After a period of investigation, the status quo of English education is as follows
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