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Linda Tsung gained a PhD from the University of Sydney and is Professor of Applied Linguistics, Chinese Studies and Multilingual Education in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney. Her research interests include second language education, Chinese education, multilingual education, language education policy in Australia and Greater China. Professor Tsung established the initial Bachelor Education and Master Degrees in Chinese teacher education at the University of Sydney and Master Degrees in Teaching Chinese as an International Language at the University of Hong Kong. She was a leader of a number of large research projects funded by the Australian government and the Hong Kong SAR government.  She has published widely on her research areas with research books and journal articles. Professor Tsung has been a member of UNESCO Asia-Pacific Multilingual Education Leading Group and as a UN Speaker on Multilingual Language Education.