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By Joseph Poulshock, PhD BeeOasis Step 3 The candidate walked into the cold, concrete classroom, which had been converted into an interview chamber. He seemed hesitant and nervous. He looked up and saw the silhouettes of two professors sitting at small desks on the opposite side of the room. Behind the professors, the sun shone [...]

Many learners (and teachers) object to extensive reading (ER) for this reason. They want to focus on speaking skills. Others may doubt the effectiveness of ER to help learners improve all language skills, though research strongly supports this claim. Even the most earnest proponents of extensive reading know that learners need to spend time directly [...]

Many approaches to language teaching focus on language as content. These approaches can be called language-driven. On the other hand, content-driven approaches focus more directly on the meanings conveyed by language, and language becomes a means to understand stories and ideas. This is called content-based instruction. Extensive reading is a form of content-based learning where [...]

What is your philosophy of education? In the classroom, how do you deal with differing opinions about big ideas? Is it right to teach about morals, values, and ethics to language learners? What is a good perspective for answering these questions? The Journal of Critical Realism has published a practical philosophy for teaching liberal arts [...]

BeeOasis: So here we are with Dr. Paul Nation, Professor Emeritus at the University of Wellington, Victoria (New Zealand).  And of course one of the most well-known linguists in the world. It’s an honor to have him. Just one quick question for our learners: How can extensive graded reading help you, help a student with their [...]

Would you like to know more about why BeeOasis.com is attracting the attention of EFL instructors and their students? See this recent article about BeeOasis in the prestigious scholarly journal Reading in a Foreign Language (RFL). In the article, Dr. Joseph Poulshock, editor of BeeOasis and director of English language education at Tokyo Christian University, [...]

By Joseph Poulshock, PhD While completing an MA in TESOL, I learned many helpful insights from my textbooks and teachers about teaching reading to English learners. Sadly, however, I was not fully ready for that first day of class with my reading students. I remember it clearly. With a mixture of confidence and nervous excitement, [...]

By Joseph Poulshock, PhD Anyone can extol the benefits of reading, and many of us can do this with a sense of remorse because we feel that we do not read as much as we should. However, most people, including language teachers, do not fully realize the following fact. Second language learners who read extensively [...]