少数民族外语教育肩负着文化输出与培养跨文化交际人才的双重使命,而基于不同符号域的文化互动是实现这两个使命的重要途径。少数民族外语教育中阻碍文化互动的主要障碍包括少数民族文化失语、对西方文化认同度不够以及重“工具性”而轻“人文性”。因此,少数民族外语教育须从外语教育的生态环境、多元文化观的培育、少数民族文化的融入以及“人文性”服务“工具性”的教学模式构建四个方面入手,保障文化互动在教学活动中发挥其应有的作用。 Foreign language education for ethnic minorities shoulders the dual mission of cultural output and cultivating intercultural communicative talents. Cultural interaction based on different symbolic domains is an important way to achieve these two missions. The main obstacles to minority cultural interaction in minority foreign language education include aphasia of ethnic minorities, lack of recognition of Western culture and heavy “instrumental” and “light” humanism. Therefore, foreign language education for ethnic minorities should start with four aspects: the ecological environment of foreign language education, the cultivation of multiculturalism, the integration of ethnic cultures, and the teaching mode of “humanisticity” and “instrumentalism” Interaction in teaching activities to play its due role.