Title: A Study of Xinjiang Higher Education Language Planning from the Perspective of National Security

Abstract: The security dimension of language planning is one of the major topics in the contemporary study of language planning and language policy. In order to fulfill the effects and values for language planning, it should be strengthened the study on language planning in the Xinjiang. The paper draws on two dimensions that are the current foreign languages capacities of Xinjiang higher education and an extensive survey of foreign languages demand of Xinjiang. The research finds the issues of deficiency of foreign languages education and provides suggestions on how to develop foreign languages education based on the geographic position and characteristics in Xinjiang.

Keywords: national security, Xinjiang, foreign language planning

Author: Chunyan Jia, Lecturer, Foreign Language Department, Xinjiang Teacher’s College, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China.