Some of my clients
RECENT WORK
Gakken and Edyouvision — graded reader development at scale. Over the past year I've built and run AI-powered development pipelines producing more than 300 graded readers: a 150-title series for Edyouvision, and a 180-title series now in production for Gakken, who will also represent the Edyouvision catalog across Asia.
University of Tokyo Graduate School of Science (2026). Corpus analysis of curriculum materials for an English-medium instruction program, with an invited lecture on vocabulary strategies for EMI: how far core vocabulary and technical terms can take a learner.
Singapore International School (2026). Corpus analysis of the school's curriculum, followed by a professional development program on using the New General Service List to strengthen reading materials and vocabulary learning.
Kinseido — In Focus, four-level EFL series. A new and expanded edition of the series I co-authored, with a full set of achievement tests developed to accompany it.
WHAT CLIENTS SAY
“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.”
Harry Hill, CEO, UFC Gyms Japan
“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.”
Christophe Ferrandou, CEO GoFluent
“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.”
Guy Cihi, CEO Lexxica
CLIENT LIST
EnglishCentral — helped develop a video corpus of 30,000 authentic videos, designed a video-based spaced-repetition learning system, developed pedagogy for voice-recognition learning, and added interactive vocabulary tools built on the NGSL Project word lists
GoFluent — as Senior Academic Advisor, built a system for creating, grading, and editing authentic content for EFL learners using the NGSL and grading tools, and improved the teacher education system supporting 500+ teachers
NTT Learning Systems — managed a major content development project for "Virtual ALT," a tablet learning system sold to public and private junior high schools throughout Japan; set the pedagogical goals, hired and directed the author and editorial team, and delivered on time and on budget
UFC Gym Japan — during the pandemic, helped the U.S. gym chain bring an English-medium solution to the Japanese market, including gym-specific and young-learner corpus-based word lists, active English and yoga programs, and teacher training both face-to-face and online
NHK — content developer for the "Kiso Eigo" radio program, and developed the corpus-based business English word list used on the TV program "Eigo Shaberenaito"
New Oriental — official consultant to the AI division, helping them apply my corpus research and tools to new product development
Cooori — helped design an AI-based 3D spaced-repetition system for teaching TOEIC vocabulary using the TOEIC Service List
Lexxica — led development of the early learning platform and approach, including computer-adaptive assessment and the teaching of corpus-based high-frequency vocabulary; co-author of several associated international patents
Cambridge University Press — co-author of the In Focus EFL textbook series
Kinseido — author of the current four-level edition of In Focus, including its achievement tests
Pearson — co-author of the Impact EFL series; consultant on online learning projects
Nan'un-do — author of a three-level video-based EFL textbook series
Audible — researched the level and suitability of reading and listening content for ESL/EFL learners, and developed the idea for the vocabulary flashcard system later added to Kindle
MetaMetrics — helped bring the Lexile system to EFL markets
X-Reading — advisor on the development of a multi-publisher online graded reader platform and LMS
Telelangue — consulted on online learning projects including the "CyberTeachers" platform, overall pedagogic improvements, and the introduction of systematic vocabulary study and extensive reading
EdulinX — advisor on several online learning projects, including the pedagogically sound use of authentic video and how to systematically teach and test vocabulary and reading skills
Slang — long-term advisor on learning platform and pedagogy for contextualized, spaced-repetition learning using a modular micro-corpus approach
CognitionPoint — designed pedagogy using graded repeat reading and listening and vocabulary development, in an approach to online reading based on eye-movement research
Gaba — consultation and content for a flexible online flashcard system using the NGSL and NAWL, plus a full-featured LMS and online learner dictionary
Anaheim University — long-term advisor and consultant for the online ESL/EFL university
DLA — advised on pedagogical approaches for using video in language learning and on marketing for the Asian market; represented them in Japan and authored a three-level textbook series using their videos
RoyalABC — helped localize and introduce this turn-key online young learner solution into the Japanese market
SecretBuilders — developed the pedagogic approach and tools for digitizing, gamifying, and monetizing graded reading materials
iShine Professional College — designed an interactive MOOC-style platform helping stay-at-home mothers develop the skills to re-enter the workforce
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