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Rainbow Chan is an Early Years and Supporting Teaching and Learning Tutor at New Directions College. She is the author of Timeless Tales: A five-minute journey of Classical Chinese Fables for Kids. Her research interests are teaching and learning Chinese as a second language, school-based curriculum development and teacher professional development. She was a research assistant of ‘C-for-Chinese@JC’ and ‘Facilitating non-Chinese speaking (NCS) students’ Chinese literacy development: An evidence–based approach’.
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