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In the second episode of the Foreign Language Pedagogy Podcast, Richard Robin, professor of Russian at George Washington university and the author of the famous textbook Golosa, discusses a number of topics related to language teaching and testing, such as:
- strategies to cultivate learner autonomy,
- when plagiarism and cheating can be good for language learning,
- five-minute declension quizzes and the reasons Professor Robin believes in learner-centered homework, not learner- centered classroom;
- using ACTFL guidelines and OPIs for teaching and testing;
- effective test-taking strategies and what one needs to do to achieve Superior or Distinguished level of proficiency, and many others.

Access the podcast at https://www.teachrussian.org/Materials/fe4ec506-2857-411b-b2d6-4984bc99bc53/robin-podcast.html?lang=en