Reading Power Wins Big on TOEIC Test

ReadOasis Step 2 Kenta looked at the envelope. His test score was inside. He opened it and read the words: [...]

Extensive Reading, Because it Works!

This is Professor Thomas Robb from Kyoto Sangyo University, and he is one of the world's renowned experts on extensive graded reading.  [...]

How to Acquire Language (Step 3)

ReadOasis Step 3 How do humans acquire languages? The answer is remarkably simple. All people everywhere acquire languages in the [...]

5 Amazing Facts About Reading

What?s the best way to improve your English? Of course, there are many ways. But big, easy reading is one [...]

How to Acquire Language (Step 2)

ReadOasis Step 2 How do humans acquire languages? The answer is surprisingly simple. All people everywhere acquire languages in the [...]

Reading Makes Words Stick in Your Brain

ReadOasis: So here we are with Dr. Paul Nation, Professor Emeritus at the University of Wellington, Victoria (New Zealand).  And of [...]

A Simple Recipe for Learning English

ReadOasis Step 1 To learn English, we need words. Most English native speakers know between 12,000 and 20,000 words. Shakespeare [...]

An Instinct for Language

ReadOasis Step 2 (Part 1) The Kingfisher is a beautiful bird. Like many kinds of birds, the Kingfisher takes a [...]

Language Acquisition (Part 2)

By Stephen Krashen ReadOasis Step 4 Talking is not practicing. Talking is not practicing. What does this mean? It means [...]

Language Acquisition (Part 3)

By Stephen Krashen ReadOasis Step 4 I'd like to discuss one more hypothesis before we move on to literacy. And [...]