Changing English Education One learner at a time…

educational Consulting

CBC Consulting (formerly Charlie Browne Company) is directed by Dr. Charles Browne, Professor of Applied Linguistics, specialist in online language learning, vocabulary acquisition and corpus-linguistics, and a well-known author and international public speaker. CBC Consulting has the expertise, experience, connections and creativity to help you to develop best-in-category solutions where technology enhances language learning, motivation and confidence.

Please browse our site to get a better idea of who we are and what we do and then drop us a line - we’d love to help you in whatever way(s) we can!

Some of our services

  • EFL/ESL learning content & curriculum development

  • Development of proprietary, science-based learning approaches

  • Problem-solving/improvement of existing learning platforms/content

  • Development of online language testing and assessment tools

  • Corpus analysis and EFL/ESL vocabulary list development

  • Extensive reading/listening content creation

  • ESL/EFL Teacher-training (development & delivery)

  • Multilingual EFL/ESL learner dictionary database development

  • International keynote speaker available to speak at your conference

The New General Service List Project *

The New General Service List Project *

Probably the work I am best known for is actually open-source and free. The New General Service List (NGSL) Project is a collection of 7 corpus-derived, vocabulary lists designed to meet the needs of second language learners of English, each offering the highest coverage in the world for that genre. The NGSL Project also offers a large and growing number of free online learning tools we have either developed ourselves or modified for the NGSL Project.