Innovative approaches to addressing the difficulties encountered by greek students in learning russian verbs of motion

With the passing of time and with the contribution of modern technology, in the process of learning Russian language as a foreign language someone can notice a relative precedence of practice against science. There are difficulties that have no proven methodological solution. From this point of view, such kind of problems occurs in the process of learning Russian language and, in particular, the Russian verbs of motion by Greek students. Complexities arise in connection with the absence in the Greek language the category of verbs of motion as such, as well as because of the difficult understanding of the lexical and semantic properties of these verbs. This work presents the principles used in the process of developing a location-based application that complements and enriches qualitatively an existing distance learning platform. Here's an example of using this application in the process of learning Russian verbs of motion by Greek audience. The course curriculum covers the initial and intermediate advanced stages, with the support of ethno-psychological and ethno-linguistic techniques. The conclusions highlight the preconditions for location-based application success and those points that need to be studied in the near future, e.g. the forum of the web-based lesson. © The Authors, 2018. All Rights Reserved.