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We are happy to announce that from today, anyone with an account can listen to Oxford Reading Tree audio without an access code. Simply log in and go to the My Audio tab.

Titles with online audio:
Oxford Reading Tree: Decode and Develop Level 1+ ～ 9
Oxford Reading Tree: Explore with Biff, Chip and Kipper Level 1+ ～ 9
Oxford Reading Tree: inFact Level 1+ ～ 5
TreeTops: Time Chronicles Level 11+ ～ 13+

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We thank you again for your continued support.

Dear Customers,

At OUP, we regularly review and make changes to our list of titles to ensure they are up-to-date, diverse, inclusive, and reflective of the world we live in, and we take steps to remove any products that are no longer appropriate from our collection. We also continuously listen to feedback from our customers, and we take our responsibility to learn and improve very seriously. We have invested and are investing in our team’s development to create more inclusive content and are working with experts on all D&I characteristics to drive improvements on existing and new content/titles.

For those reasons, 10 titles from the Biff, Chip and Kipper series in Oxford Reading Tree have been withdrawn from sale. See the list of affected titles here.

We are delighted to announce the launch of Oxford Reading Club for individual English language learners. 

Already available for schools and universities, now individual learners can also access a digital library of over 1,000 Graded Reader e-books of all levels and genres designed to help learners read their way to better English. Plans start from ￥990 per month.

Read the press release.
View plans and purchase.

This month, Oxford Univerisity Press launched new branding which supports our ongoing transformation to become a digital-first business and enhance our aim to make knowledge and learning more accessible through the power of technology. Find out more.

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Sir Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for their work on black holes. Roger Penrose is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. He received the award “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity.”

We are very saddened to learn that Ritsuko Nakata passed away on 1 September 2020.
 
As a co-author of the bestselling Let’s Go series and founder of the IIEEC Teacher Training Center, Ritsuko dedicated her career to the teaching of English to young learners.
 
Born and educated in the USA, Ritsuko moved to Japan early in her teaching career, where she began experimenting with more practical, effective ways to get children to learn English. Her focus on getting students to ask questions as well as answer them and to thus be able to engage in more natural dialogue is a cornerstone of the Let’s Go approach. The series was a pioneer when it was first published in 1992, setting the standard for many others that followed; now in its 5th edition, it remains a market leader. In fact, one of Ritsuko’s great pleasures was meeting English teachers who had studied with Let’s Go when they were children and who were now using the series in their own classrooms. She was a wonderful mentor and teacher trainer who could get roomfuls of teachers on their feet and practicing her signature action-based routines. Always kind and always enthusiastic, she was especially skilled at inspiring new teachers, putting them at ease, and helping them to feel confident in their teaching. 
 
It’s no exaggeration to say that through her work, a lifetime of teaching, authoring, and training, Ritsuko has touched the lives of millions of primary teachers and students -- in Japan where she lived, across Asia, and around the world. She leaves an amazing legacy and her loss will be keenly felt by the staff at OUP and all those who knew her.  We send our deepest condolences to her husband and three daughters, as well as to her fellow Let’s Go authors.

We have received several inquiries about video streaming storybook readings to children using our products such as Oxford Reading Tree (ORT).

As long as you use and enjoy reading ORT and other products at your home or individually, there is no issue. However, if you upload or stream any video or audio of our copyright materials via the internet, it will infringe our copyrights. Therefore, please refrain from doing so.

Additionally, we have provided an explanation of our position regarding the treatment of copyrighted materials in the course of school lessons under new Article 35 of the Copyright Act in Japan. Please view the statement above.

If you have any question on this matter, please email elt.japan@oup.com

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We’re excited to announce the launch of Oxford Reading Club - a smart new way to read digital Graded Readers by Oxford University Press.
 
Get unlimited access to 900 e-books from 12 different series including Oxford Reading Tree and Bookworms, plus a range of easy-to-use features for learners and teachers, such as audio, quizzes, and a Learning Management System. For a low monthly cost, students can read as much as they want, whenever they want; while teachers can manage lessons and track student progress easily and efficiently.
 
Oxford Reading Club is the comprehensive reading solution for all educational institutions from private language schools to universities. Find out more.
 

Jeffrey C. Stewart has been awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for his book The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke (Oxford University Press, 2018). Stewart meticulously recounts the life and achievements of Locke, the first African-American Rhodes Scholar and architect of the Harlem Renaissance. The book has collected numerous other prizes including the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction, the 2019 PROSE Award for Best Biography, and the 2019 Mark Lynton History Prize. Learn more about the prize.

Emma, from the Bookworms series, and Mulan, from Classic Tales, both won in their categories at the 2018 Language Learner Literature Awards. Every year the Extensive Reading Foundation recognizes the best new works of language learner literature in English and awards one winner in each of six categories. Also selected as finalists this year were It's Hot, The Snow Tigers and Hope on Turtle Island, from the Oxford Read and Imagine. Learn more.

This year's Longman-History Today prize awarded OUP author, Emily Jones, for her Oxford Historical Monograph, Edmund Burke & The Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830–1914. This is a prestigious prize, awarded by both Longman and History Today magazine since 1997, to foster a wiser understanding of, and enthusiasm for, history and is awarded for an author's first or second book. Learn more about the award.

The noun, youthquake, is defined as 'a significant cultural, political, or social change arising from the actions or influence of young people’. The data collated by the Oxford Dictionaries editors shows a fivefold increase in usage of youthquake in 2017 compared to 2016, the word having first struck in a big way in June with the UK's general election at its epicenter. Please click here for more details on the Word of the Year 2017.

OUP author June Teufel Dreyer, a professor at University of Miami, has been named the 4th Kokkiken Japan Study Award recipient for her study The Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun: Sino-Japanese Relations, Past and Present (2016, OUP). The award is given by the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals to non-Japanese researchers including first generation naturalized persons who conducted outstanding research which increases the understanding of Japan in the areas of politics, national security, diplomacy, history, education and culture. Her neutral analysis based on thorough objective research was evaluated and honored this time.

'Post-truth', an adjective defined as 'relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief' was named Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2016. This word appeared frequently this year in the context of the EU referendum in the UK and the presidential election in the US. Please click here for more details.

Sherlock Holmes: The Speckled Band, from the Dominoes series published by Oxford University Press, was selected as the winner of the 2016 Language Learner Literature Award in the Adolescent & Adult: Beginner Category. Every year the Extensive Reading Foundation recognizes the best new works of language learner literature in English and awards winners in 6 categories. Also selected as a finalist this year was 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, from the Oxford Bookworms Library, in the Adolescent & Adult Intermediate Category. Learn more here.

The authors of Exploring Psychology in Language Learning and Teaching: Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers (Oxford University Press 2015), Marion Williams, Sarah Mercer and Stephen Ryan was awarded the 2015 Ben Warren-International House Trust Prize. This biennial award is given to the author or authors of the most outstanding work in the field of language teacher education. Co-author Stephen Ryan is a professor at Senshu University based in Tokyo, and his research covers various aspects of psychology in language learning.

OUP was commissioned by Otsu City Board of Education in Shiga as their partner in a project to research and develop an ICT-based teaching methodology for their Foreign Language Activities classes. OUP will provide ELT materials along with a customised curriculum, lesson plans and extensive teacher training programme to enable all homeroom teachers in the city's 37 elementary schools to conduct English lessons with confidence and improve student proficiency. Please click here for more details.