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Investigation and Analysis of the Trilingual Attitudes of Tibetan College Students in Tibet Areas

Yongcheng Cao, Quanguo Liu, Huajie Chen

Abstract


Language attitude is people’s understanding and evaluation of languages, which has important effect on language
learning. Based upon investigation into 605 tibetan college students from 5 colleges in Tibet areas, and combined with network data,
this paper mainly analyses their attitude towards Tibetan, Chinese and English from four dimensions: recognizing, instrumental,
integrative and transferring attitude. This paper also discusses the relationship between students’ language attitude and their gender
and grade.

Keywords


Trilingualism; Language Attitude; Tibetan College Students; Tibet Areas

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18282/l-e.v10i4.2533

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