# A Greek language teaching platform for primary school pupils

## TL;DR

This paper presents the development of GrfKids, an interactive online Greek language learning platform for primary school Russian speakers, utilizing WordPress LMS to facilitate engaging, adaptable, and accessible language education.

## Contribution

It introduces a new LMS-based platform tailored for young learners with Russian as a native language, supporting asynchronous learning and automatic assessment.

## Key findings

- The platform is easy to use and adaptable for children.
- It supports interactive, asynchronous learning with automatic assessment.
- The platform can be expanded to other languages and age groups.

## Abstract

This study aims to develop an online Greek language learning platform via a learning management system based on the WordPress platform for primary school pupils with Russian as a mother tongue. The subject was chosen with a view to aid both the communication needs of Russian native speakers in Greece, as well as their smooth integration into society. For the purpose of the current study, we investigated how Greek language is learnt in Russia, how widespread and popular it is, whether it is supported by the Russian educational system, as well as whether Greek language distance learning could be achieved. Moreover, LMS (Learning management system) environments were investigated as well, aiming at selecting the most student-teacher-friendly one. Taking into account that the platform is addressed to children, a presentable and properly developed material was designed, thus making the learning of each module more interesting and comprehensible throughout its short duration. With GrfKids platform speakers of other languages have the opportunity to learn Greek in an interactive asynchronous teaching environment with an automatic assessment. Moreover,GrfKids can be easily and immediately expanded both to pupils' linguistic, as well as age range. GrfKids provides Greek language courses to children with Russian as a mother tongue with interactive modules in which the learners can adapt the learning time by themselves. It is easy to use, functional and easily adapted to the ages it is addressed to.