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performance of students from the former USSR in Greek schools

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, smitakid{at}eled.auth.gr

C. Tourtouras

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

E. Tressou

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

In the 1990s, Greece received, among other immigrants from different regions of the world, repatriates from the former USSR as well as refugees from the same region.¹ This article outlines part of a research study² focusing on the children of both Greek and other origins, who emigrated to Greece from the former USSR and who attended primary schools in Thessaloniki between the academic years 1989—90 to 1999—2000. The aim of this article is to compare the performance in language and mathematics of immigrant and repatriate children, who started school in Greece, with children of the same group, who joined school at a later grade, and also to compare the first group of children with their native peers.

Key Words: Greek as a second language (GSL) • language • linguistic minorities • mathematics • school performance

Journal of Early Childhood Research, Vol. 6, No. 2, 163-187 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1476718X08088676


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