WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF BILINGUAL STUDENTS OF PRIMARY SCHOOL IN WRITTEN PRODUCTION

Bilingualism in relation to the degree of Readability in the first grades of primary school was the starting point of this research to highlight variables that influence the written production. Out of a total of 150 samples, 39 samples were randomly collected from a bilingual student of a German public school. The mother tongue is Greek while the samples come from the 2nd 5th grade of primary school. This was followed by the precise digitization of the texts in Word format and the investigation of the variables continued with the Readability formulas Flesch-Kincaid and Gunning Fog. The results were transferred to an Excel spreadsheet. Using Tableau through statistical analysis, it was found that words associated with History, Biology, Geography or Religious Studies, multisyllabic words and appropriate vocabulary display high Readability grades and also high marks during evaluation. The relationship between all these important factors is inversely proportional. In other words, when one variable increases, the other also increases. For example, when the evaluation decreases, the difficulty grade of the text also decreases, and vice versa. The purpose of the research is to find the characteristics by which the Readability grade of texts produced by bilingual primary school students can be determined. In this way, a database can be created for even more reliable assessment of bilingual students, but also for the construction of digital tools and educational material adapted for bilingual students.