Dr. Browne is Professor of Applied Linguistics & TESOL in the English Department of Meiji Gakuin University and Director of their MA and PhD programs. He is a specialist in Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition and Extensive Reading, especially as they apply to online learning environments, and has written dozens of articles, books, and EFL textbooks over his 30+ years in Japan. In addition to his work on the NGSL Project, he has also developed many free online ER/EL and vocabulary learning sites, tools and apps, working hard to share this knowledge through presentations, seminars and hand-on workshops around the world. A frequent keynote and plenary speaker at international conferences, he is happy to speak at your event as well!

He is also Director of Charlie Browne Company Inc., a consulting company with expertise in online language learning content and curriculum creation, app and platform development and the construction of online testing and assessment tools.

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With over 30 years of experience in teaching English as a second language, Joseph Phillips has brought a passion for education to prestigious institutions in Tokyo. Former professor and coordinator of the award-winning English Language program at Aoyama Gakuin Women's Junior College, Joseph continues this passion with the NGSL project. As a former lawyer, Joseph maintains an interest in copyright issues as they pertain to EFL materials development.