Rainbow Chan is an independent researcher. 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’.