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.  [...]

Happy Memories

By Dr. Richard WisemanReadOasis Step 2 This exercise is all about re-living happy memories. Research shows that reflecting on what [...]

Gratitude Attitude

By Dr. Richard WisemanReadOasis Step 2 Note: the following is a text of a short talk given by Richard Wiseman.  [...]

Fred Astaire, Dancer Extraordinaire

ReadOasis Step 3 "Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have [...]

Get Your Goals!

By Richard WisemanReadOasis Step 3 Note: the following is a text of a talk given by Richard Wiseman.  "I tracked the [...]

Reading Should Be Fun!

Interview with Dr. Charles Browne, Professor, Meiji Gakuin University. This is "Charles the Great," from Meiji Gakuin University, and of [...]

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 [...]

Change in 59 Seconds

By Professor Richard Wiseman ReadOasis Step 2 59 Seconds is about the science of self-help. So one part of the [...]

The Goodbye Bacon Blues

ReadOasis Step 3 With apologies to all my pig farming and hog farming friends, I wrote this song, a blues [...]

The As If Principle

By Richard WisemanReadOasis Step 3 In 1884, the great American Philosopher William James had a radical idea. James argued that [...]