Some of our PREVIOUS clients
“We worked closely with Dr. Browne to develop our Fitness and English curriculum for both adults and juniors for the UFC Gym Japan. Dr. Browne helped us create a unique and compelling curriculum and story for our customers and helped train our staff to understand the science and pedagogy. He is professional as well as a pleasure to work with.”
“In his work as GoFluent’s Senior Academic Advisor, Dr. Charles Browne has brought his wealth of knowledge and experience in content development, online language testing, vocabulary acquisition, and communicative language teaching to help us deeply reexamine the tools and strategies that have served us successfully for our first ten years.”
“Dr. Charles Browne is an exceptional man who brings high degrees of personal integrity and industry expertise to his work and professional relationships. I am proud to work with Charles.”
CLIENT LIST AND LINKS
Telelangue - consulted on a wide range of online learning projects including work on the “CyberTeachers” platform, overall pedagogic improvements and the incorporation of systematic vocabulary study and extensive reading programs
EdulinX - advisor for several online learning projects including use of authentic videos in a pedagogically sound way and how to systematically teach and test vocabulary and reading skills
UFC - in the midst of the pandemic crisis, we helped the US gym chain to bring an English-medium solution to the Japanese market including creating gym-specific and young-learner specific corpus based word lists, active English and Yoga programs for young learners and adults as well as teacher training solutions (both face-to-face & online)
NTTLS - managed a major content development project for “Virtual ALT, an online tablet learning system sold to public and private junior high schools throughout Japan. Set the pedagogical goals, hired authors, delivered on time and on budget
Anaheim University: long-term advisor and consultant for the online ESL/EFL university
GoFluent - as their senior academic advisor, developed a system for creating/grading/editing authentic content for EFL learners (using our NGSL word list and grading tools) and improved the teacher education system for 500+ teachers
Cooori - helped design an AI-based 3D spaced-repetition learning system to teach TOEIC vocabulary (using our TSL word list) and other key test preparation skills, strategies and contents
NewOriental - worked as the official consultant for the AI division of New Oriental helping them to make use of my corpus research and tools in their new product development
FTNK - occasional consultant since the beginning days of the company, advising on issues related to online learning, integrated skill solutions, corpus-derived vocabulary for special purpose needs, teacher training ect.
Slang - long-term advisor, helping to develop learning platform and pedagogy for contextualized, spaced repetition learning using a modular, micro-corpus learning approach
EnglishCentral - helped develop video corpus of 12,000 authentic videos, designed a video-based spaced-repetition learning system, developed pedagogy for learning via voice recognition system, added interactive vocabulary learning tools utilizing the NGSL Project wordlists
RoyalABC - helped to localize and introduce into the Japanese market this turn-key online language learning solution for young learners of English
DLA - in the early days of the company, worked as an advisor to help develop sound pedagogical approaches for using DLA videos for language learning, marketing approaches for the Asian market, representing them in Japan for a fixed term, and eventually authoring a 3-level textbook series for a Japanese publisher utilizing their videos
CognitionPoint - helped design pedagogy utilizing graded, repeat reading/listening and vocabulary development (using NGSL word list and OGTE grading tools) in a unique approach to online reading/listening based on eye-movement research
iShine Professional College - designed an interactive MOOC-style learning platform to help stay-at-home mom’s develop the job skills and knowledge needed to re-enter the work force
Audible - conducted research on the level and suitability of reading and listening content for ESL/EFL learners and developed idea for the vocabulary flashcard system later added to Kindle
Gaba - provide consultation, advice and content for development of a flexible online flashcard learning system (utilizing our NGSL and NAWL word lists) as well as a full-featured LMS and online learner dictionary
X-Reading - advisor for development of a multi-publisher online graded reader platform and LMS (Learner Management System)
SecretBuilders - helped develop the pedagogic approach and tools for digitalizing, gamifying and monetizing graded-reading materials
Metametrics - helped bring the Lexile system to EFL markets
NHK - content developer for “Kiso Eigo” Radio Show, developed corpus-based business English word list used on “Eigo Shaberenaito” TV Show
Cambridge University Press - co-author of In Focus EFL textbook series.
Nan’un-do Publishing - author of 3-level video-based EFL textbook series
Pearson - co-author of Impact EFL textbook series, consultant on online learning projects.
Lexxica - led development of the early versions of Lexxica’s learning approach and platform including computer-adaptive assessment and teaching of corpus-based, high frequency vocabulary, co-author of several associated international patents for this.
