First, it has important educational and teaching significance. The main significance of bilingual education is to let students learn their mother tongue and second language well and master bilingualism. First of all, by learning the mother tongue (the first language), the main teaching language can be consistent with the students' language foundation and social language environment. Teachers can correctly impart knowledge and express ideas in this language, so that students can fully understand what teachers teach and ensure the normal education and teaching activities. Students' normal thinking and developing their thinking ability through their mother tongue are conducive to developing intelligence, fully mobilizing students' intellectual and non-intellectual factors in learning, and making them have a strong interest in learning. This not only makes full and effective use of teaching time, but also ensures the realization of the expected goals of education and teaching activities. On this basis, learning a second language and carrying out bilingual education can broaden students' knowledge, make them accept multiculturalism, adapt to the needs of political and economic life in multi-ethnic countries, and expand students' opportunities for success and employment. Therefore, bilingual education is to popularize compulsory education in minority areas, improve the quality of education and the efficiency of running schools, effectively improve the quality of minority workers, and thus accelerate the growth of minority talents to meet the needs of economic and social development.
Second, it has important political significance. Politicians and educators who advocate bilingual education in eastern and western countries hope to help realize the political ideal of "equality, unity, democracy and freedom" of all ethnic groups in their own countries through bilingual education. They encourage all ethnic groups to use their own spoken and written languages, and try their best to get them into schools and participate in school education, so that all ethnic groups can use their spoken and written languages equally. Through bilingual education, mutual understanding among ethnic groups can be realized, unity among ethnic groups can be enhanced, and the scientific and cultural quality of ethnic groups can be improved, so that the educated can accept and understand the political concepts of society, thus resulting in the behavior of maintaining the current political system and obeying the law, and forming corresponding political consciousness.
Third, it is helpful to the construction, innovation and development of minority culture. First, inherit the traditional culture of ethnic minorities and the existing social culture, and improve the cultural level of the whole society. Language is an organic part of culture, and the traditional culture of ethnic minorities permeates all aspects of social life of ethnic minorities and also affects education. Based on this principle, bilingual education adopts a language (mother tongue) adapted to the national language environment according to the national educational objectives. The language of teaching and learning has been connected with each other, which is not only conducive to inheriting traditional culture, but more importantly, to improving the cultural level of the whole society. Second, the transmission of multiculturalism is beneficial to the wider world. Bilingual education can make the educated get multicultural education. The acquisition of this kind of multi-culture must first be achieved through the second or third language education in schools on the basis of maintaining and developing non-national traditional culture. The goal of bilingual education is to make minority teenagers not only learn scientific and cultural knowledge well through their mother tongue, but also learn national lingua franca and foreign languages and cultures, so as to absorb advanced scientific and cultural knowledge for the whole country and the whole world. So that minority teenagers can adapt to the requirements of the times and the development of the wider world.
Fourth, it is helpful to the economic development of minority areas. Bilingual education can quickly improve the cultural and scientific level of the educated in minority areas. Economic development is based on the development of science and technology and the improvement of the scientific and technological level of the whole society, and the quality of workers plays a decisive role in economic development. Therefore, all countries in the world attach great importance to improving the quality of workers, which means not only political quality and cultural quality, but also scientific and technological quality. All countries require schools in minority areas not only to learn culture well through bilingualism, but also to learn science and technology well on the basis of learning culture well.
Marxism holds that all human practical activities are purposeful activities under the guidance of certain values. Therefore, to solve the problem of value identification and evaluation of bilingual education for ethnic minorities, a series of specific problems such as the choice of bilingual education model and the formulation of policies can have correct guiding ideology; It is possible for bilingual education activities to implement bilingual education realistically under the guidance of clear values and from the local reality; Can cultivate more high-quality talents for the economic development of ethnic areas; It is possible to provide a scientific value standard for the evaluation of bilingual education and a philosophical value reference for the further study of bilingual education. Therefore, it is a very important and key issue to clarify the value of bilingual education for ethnic minorities from a macro perspective.
As a developing country with a vast territory, numerous ethnic groups and unbalanced economic and cultural development, bilingual education for ethnic minorities in China cannot be achieved overnight. This is not only a long process, but also a complicated and constantly problematic process, because the realization of the value of bilingual education is restricted by many conditions. The realization of value is influenced by the development history, bilingual education history, overall level of ethnic education, economic development in ethnic areas, local policies, social and ecological environment, cultural and ecological environment and traditional concepts of ethnic groups.