Changing English Education, One LEarner at a Time

COntent creation

Over the past 30 years, I have authored dozens of books for publishers big and small, but have also been very active in developing and managing the development of a wide range of educational content for online learning platforms. This includes graded extensive reading and listening content, authentic and graded video content, multi-lingual dictionary databases specifically geared to the needs of second language learners, and comprehensive curriculum development for both face-to-face as well as the virtual classroom.

We have also created a free extensive reading website as well as free tools for text analysis and text creation. Please check my Resources page for links.

Vocabulary BUILDING

Vocabulary development is the cornerstone of any successful language learning program. This is one of my main areas of expertise and many of our products and services are based on carefully developing and analyzing natural language corpora with the goal of developing tight, efficient lists of vocabulary words representing the most important words in that genre.

Depending on your specific needs, we can quickly create, analyze and provide output from corpora for a wide range of pedagogical purposes.

We have already created seven free corpus-based word lists, each of which represents the highest coverage in the world for that specific purpose. Please check my Resources page for links including a deeper explanation of how this work is done.

General consulting

As an applied linguist and a specialist in online language learning, content creation and teacher-development, I am available to work with you in a wide range of ways depending on your specific needs. Much of my work has been with online startups and educational publishers, but as my research and open-source tools for vocabulary acquisition and reading skills development have become better known, my work is quickly expanding to include consultation for the US State Dept, local boards of education around Japan, and Ministries of Education around the world.

I am a frequent conference plenary and keynote speaker, and would be happy to help teach and inspire your group in this way as well.