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Abstract
Multilingual education requires evidence-based approaches that account for crosslinguistic influence patterns. In Central Asian border regions, 34-38% of learners are Turkmen-Uzbek bilinguals acquiring English as L3, yet pedagogical frameworks addressing this specific trilingual context are absent.
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