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The linguistic profile of Greek students as non-native speakers of Spanish in writing

The investigation of common linguistic elements among Greek students as non-native speakers of Spanish contributes to the creation of an innovative database to highlight the eases and difficulties in the production of written language. The purpose of this research is to highlight mainly the morphological, grammatical, syntactic and lexical characteristics of Greek higher education students for the Spanish language as an elective course, offered by the Department of Italian Language and Literature of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Thus, 60 samples were randomly collected from a total of 104, carefully digitized manually in Word 10 format and transferred to a readability tool for the Spanish language. Then, the results of this phase were transferred to the statistical tool Tableau from where the final results were extracted. The final product led the study to the following conclusions: 1. Male Greek students produce relatively satisfactory A1 level Spanish texts in terms of the degree of difficulty, as do female Greek students. Elements such as a sufficient number of words, characters and sentences, understanding instructions, the use of correct vocabulary, and the evaluator’s final grade per examination period gave relatively positive results for the profile of Greek students in the production of Spanish texts. The present research may stimulate future researchers at a national and international level to form a broader database for non-native speakers of foreign languages who learn foreign languages within universities for the construction of even more up-to-date educational materials and unified tests intended for non-native speakers.