eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Educational Research 2327-6150 2013-08-16 1 1 267 271 10.12691/education-1-7-9 EDUCATION2013179 article Fuxia Li 1 Huifang Ma 1 Lidong Wang wld0707@163.com 2 School of Foreign Languages, Dalian Nationalities University, Liaoning province, China School of Science, Dalian Nationalities University, Liaoning province, China Our nation is a multi-ethnic nation with 55 minorities, and 53 of them use their native language. Most preparatory students will inevitably be influenced or interfered, more or less, by their native languages, cultures, customs, cognitive and non-cognitive factors. In this essay, we are going to carry out an investigation of English learning barriers of minority preparatory students and a brief discussion of its strategies, aiming to educate them to meet their own needs in preparatory teaching and provide some effective learning approaches for preparatory students. http://pubs.sciepub.com/education/1/7/9/education-1-7-9.pdf minority preparatory students preparatory teaching English learning barriers strategies