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The Promise of Optimal Input.
 (Turkish Online Journal of English Language Teaching (TOJELT), 5(3), 146-155.)
 Mason, B., & Krashen, S. (2020). Posted: 2024-07-20  | 
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When progress stops: The continuing saga of Mr. Tanaka.
 (Language Issues, 1(3), 29-41.)
 Mason, B. (2021). Posted: 2024-07-05  | 
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Foundations for Story-Listening: Some basics.
 (Language Issues, 1(4), 1-5.)
 Krashen, S., & Mason, B. (2022) Posted: 2024-07-05  | 
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Meeting ministry recommendations for vocabulary learning: A suggestion.
 (Language Issues, 2(3), 12-15.)
 Mason, B., Ae, N., & Krashen, S. D. (2022). Posted: 2024-07-05  | 
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Do young people in Japan like to read? Let’s take a closer look.
 (Language and Language Teaching, 10(1), 19, 49-54.)
 Krashen, S., Mason, B., & McQuillan, J. (2021). Posted: 2024-07-04  | 
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The immersion assumption.
 (Selected Papers from the Twenty-ninth International Symposium on English Teaching, 107-113.)
 Mason, B., & Krashen, S. (2020) Posted: 2024-07-04  | 
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Story Listening and Guided Self-Selected Reading.
 (The Language Teacher, 44(6), 21-22.)
 Mason, B. (2020). Posted: 2024-07-04  | 
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Story-Listening: A brief introduction
 (CATESOL Newsletter, July, 53(7).)
 Mason, B., & Krashen, S. (2020). Posted: 2024-07-04  | 
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The optimal input hypothesis: Not all comprehensible input is of equal value
 (CATESOL Newsletter (May).)
 Krashen, S., & Mason, B. (2020). Posted: 2024-07-04  | 
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Story-Listening in Indonesia: A replication study.
 (Journal of English Language Teaching, 62(1), 3-6.)
 Mason, B., Smith, K., & Krashen, S. (2020). Posted: 2024-07-04  | 
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Interview Stephen Krashen talks to Beniko Mason
 (Language and Language Teaching Volume 8 Number 1 Issue 15 January 2019)
 Krashen, S., & Mason, B. (2018). Posted: 2019-11-11  | 
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How to Use Prompters
 (11.6.2019)
 Beniko Mason Posted: 2019-11-11  | 
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Comprehension-Aiding Supplementation: CAS-Drawing
 (11.6.2019)
 Beniko Mason Posted: 2019-11-11  | 
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Guided SSR before Self-Selected Reading.
 (Shitennoji University Bulletin, 67, 445-456.)
 Mason, B. (2019). Posted: 2019-11-11  | 
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Direct teaching of vocabulary?
 (Journal of English Language Teaching, 61(1), 9-13.)
 Krashen, S., & Mason, B. (2019). Posted: 2019-11-11  | 
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A note on comprehension checking.
 (Journal of English Language  Teaching, 61(1), 23-24.)
 Krashen, S., & Mason, B. (2019). Posted: 2019-11-11  | 
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Applying the Input (Reading) Hypothesis: Some history and a look ahead.
 (Shitennoji University Bulletin, 68, 451-458.)
 Mason, B., & Krashen, S. (2019). Posted: 2019-11-11  | 
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Sustained Silent Reading in Foreign Language Edcucation: An Update
 (Turkish Online Journal of English Language Teaching, 2, 70-73.)
 Krashen, S., & Mason, B. (2017). Posted: 2017-09-25  | 
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Self-Selected Reading and TOEIC Performance: Evidence from Case Histories
 (Shitennoji University Bulletin (2017,63, 469-475))
 Beniko Mason & Stephen Krashen Posted: 2017-09-09  | 
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Can we increase the power of reading by adding communicative output activities? A commnet on Song and Sardegna (2014)
 Stephen Krashen, Beniko Mason, & Ken Smith Posted: 2014-09-17  | 
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Self-Selected Pleasure Reading and Story Listening for Foreign Language Classrooms
 Beniko Mason Posted: 2014-09-15  | 
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Comprehension is the Key to Efficient Foreign Language Education - Self-Selected Reading and Story-Listening are the Solutions
 Beniko Mason Posted: 2013-06-16  | 
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Comprehension is the Key to Successful English Language Education Reform
 Beniko Mason Posted: 2013-06-16  | 
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The Case of Mr. Kashihara: Another Case of Substantial Gains in Reading and Listening without Output or Grammar Study
 (To be published in the IBU Journal 2013.)
 Beniko Mason Posted: 2013-06-16  | 
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The Efficient Use of Literature in Second Language Education: Free Reading and Listening to Stories
 Beniko Mason Posted: 2013-03-17  | 
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(Necessary conditions for a successful Extensive Reading Program)
 Beniko Mason Posted: 2012-09-29  | 
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Impressive gains on the TOEIC after one year of comprehensible input, with no output or grammar study, 7(1). November.
 (2011)
 Beniko Mason Posted: 2011-11-20  | 
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The Reality, Robustness, and Possible Superiority of Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition: Another Look at File and Adams
 Beniko Mason and Stephen Krashen Posted: 2011-02-13  | 
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Interview
 Ken Schmidt Posted: 2009-01-04  | 
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The Efficiency of Self-Selected Reading and Hearing Stories on Adult Second Language Acquisition
 Beniko Mason Posted: 2007-12-15  | 
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TOEFL Preparation using Recreational Reading
 Beniko Mason Posted: 2007-03-25  | 
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Free Voluntary Reading and Autonomy in Second Language Acquisition: Improving TOEFL Scores from Reading Alone
 Beniko Mason Posted: 2006-08-20  | 
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Extensive Reading; Why do it, how to do it, how not to do it
 Beniko Mason Posted: 2005-09-16  | 
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The effect of adding supplementary writing to an extensive reading program
 Beniko Mason Posted: 2005-06-04  | 
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Teaching Reading to EFL Learners in Japan Using an Extensive Reading Approach
 Beniko Mason Posted: 2005-03-23  | 
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Can Extensive Reading Help Unmotivated Students of EFL Improve?
 Beniko Mason and Stephen Krashen Posted: 2005-03-23  | 
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Is Form-Focused Vocabulary Instruction Worth While?
 Beniko Mason & Stephen Krashen Posted: 2005-03-18  | 
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The Details of the Extensive Reading Program at International Buddhist University
 Beniko Mason and Tom Pendergast Posted: 2005-03-18  | 
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The Practice and Effect of an Extensive Reading Program at University
 Masuko Ikeda and Beniko Mason Posted: 2005-03-18  | 
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Extensive Reading In English As A Foreign Language
 Beniko Mason and Stephen Krashen Posted: 2004-12-11  | 
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Vocabulary Acquisition through Storytelling
 Beniko Mason Posted: 2004-09-03  | 
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