Hock Huan, GOH is currently Research Counselor to the Directors’ Office and a Research Scientist at the Singapore Centre for Chinese Language (SCCL). He obtained his doctorate in education from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He began his career in educational research in 2004 and his interests include Chinese language education in multi/bilingual contexts, child Mandarin competence and classroom discourse. At the SCCL he has led three ministry-funded projects, which involved constructing specialised written and spoken corpura for Chinese language education, and evaluation of Chinese language curriculum implementation. Despite being partially visual impaired, he has published with his research team a series on everyday Chinese used by Singapore students. He has also published more than 10 co-authored articles and over 20 paper presentations. Recently, he has co-contributed a book chapter on code-switching in ＂Teaching Chinese Language in Singapore: Retrospect and Challenge＂ also published by Springer.