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By Jonathan Klein (TED) BeeOasis Step 3 In my industry, we believe that images can change the world. Okay, we’re naive, we’re bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. The truth is that we know that the images themselves don’t change the world, but we’re also aware that, since the beginning of photography, images have provoked reactions in people, [...]

Get Your Goals By Richard Wiseman BeeOasis Step 3 I tracked the lives of 5,000 people as they attempted to achieve their New Year’s resolutions. Now most of them failed, but ten percent did obtain their aims and ambitions. But what were they doing that was so different? Well it all came down to five [...]

By Mike Matas (TED) So for the past year and a half, my team at Push Pop Press and Charlie Melcher and Melcher Media have been working on creating the first feature-length interactive book. It’s called “Our Choice” and the author is Al Gore. It’s the sequel to “An Inconvenient Truth” and it explores all [...]

By Jay Walker (TED) These rocks have been hitting our earth for about three billion years, and are responsible for much of what’s gone on on our planet. This is an example of a real meteorite, and you can see all the melting of the iron from the speed and the heat when a meteorite [...]

BeeOasis: So this is our our second question with Dr. Richard Day. And this is from a student, and basically it’s this: What would you say to a student who doesn’t want to do ER because, let’s say, he or she wants to spend more time improving their listening or speaking skills. Dr. Day: Good. [...]

In this short video clip, Dr. David Hill speaks about liberal arts themes for extensive reading. He makes two basic points. First, when learners learn a language, they can benefit from learning culture, too. And this culture includes the themes of the humanities or liberal arts. Second, learners can more easily learn this information when [...]

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 [...]

By Tim Brown (TED) So this guy, this guy is a guy named Bob McKim. And he was a creativity researcher in the ’60s and ’70s, and also led the Stanford design program. And in fact, my friend and IDEO founder, David Kelley, who’s out there somewhere, studied under him at Stanford. And he liked [...]

Interview with Dr. Charles Browne, Professor, Meiji Gakuin University. This is “Charles the Great,” from Meiji Gakuin University, and of course, English Central and many other places. And [he is] affectionately known as “Charlie.” We are going to ask him a couple of questions about extensive reading. [The] first question is, “What’s good about it?” [...]

This is Professor Thomas Robb from Kyoto Sangyo University, and he is one of the world’s renowned experts on extensive graded reading.  Q: Tell us. Why should students do extensive reading? Dr. Robb: Why? Because it works. I’ve done it for Japanese as well. Really? Yeah. So I chose a mystery novel writer and I read 35 of [...]

Here is a short interview with Dr. Richard Day. Dr. Day is a Professor at the University of Hawaii in the Department of Second Language Studies. He is a well-known and highly regarded linguist. In this interview on BeeOasis TV, Professor Day answers this question. Is extensive reading good for students of English? Interview Question: [...]

By Richard St. John (TED) This is really a two hour presentation I give to high school students, cut down to three minutes. And it all started one day on a plane, on my way to TED, seven years ago. And in the seat next to me was a high school student, a teenager, and [...]

Here is a summary of this TED talk at BeeOasis Step 1. If you are a Chinese student, you start learning English in the third grade, by law. This year China will become the world’s largest English speaking country. Why English? In a single word: Opportunity. Opportunity for a better life, a job, to be [...]

In this video, Amane talks about her reading dream.

In this BeeOasis video, Dr. Hitoshi Nishizawa explains his research. He compared TOEIC scores for two kinds of students. Some studied for one year in English speaking countries. Others did extensive graded reading in Japan. Some of these students read more than 3 million words. And they got about the same TOEIC score (around 600) [...]