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Axelle arrived in Australia in 1995. After graduating with a masters degree from Macquarie University, she became an Associate Lecturer in French Language and Culture at UTS. In 2005 she went to live overseas and after graduating with a masters degree in Conference Interpreting from the University of Geneva, she is back in Sydney where she works as a French teacher. She is also a free-lance conference interpreter in Asia Pacific.

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Anne-Marie is native of France and has been teaching French as a second language to adults since 2007. Her qualifications include a TAE 40110 and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art and Theatre from the UK.

Anne-Marie uses her experience as an interpreter and a translator to sharpen the understanding of the variety of subtleness between languages. Her teaching is driven by her relentless quest to provide her students with tools for learning emanating from more than 2 decades of applied research. Fields of research encompass Advanced Learning, Neuro-Linguistic Programming as well as kinaesthetic learning. Her methodology is made successful by the high level of interactivity that takes place during class time as well as cultural notes which bring France into the classroom.

To palliate for the fact that classes are weekly, Anne-Marie uses exercises which put into practice what is covered in the books. Students get audio recordings to accompany the textbook exercises, designed to make the most of what has been learnt in class. At the end of term, her students revisit their newly acquired French using a board game she has especially tailored to help everyone practice in a playful and relaxed manner.

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Beth has worked in the area of driver assessment and rehabilitation for 12 years. She is a registered driver trained occupational therapist and has completed a Bachelor and Master’s of Applied Sciences in Occupational Therapy (USyd). She currently operates a company called ‘Rehab on Road’ and worked at Driver Rehabilitation & Fleet Safety Services at The University of Sydney for 6 years prior to this. Beth is experienced in conducting teaching programmes for occupational therapists and driving instructors, conducting individualised assessment and rehabilitation programmes for all classes of vehicles, in coordinating corporate programmes, and in research and mentoring.

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Angela is a dedicated and engaging international facilitator and speaker. Her extensive and ongoing project experience ensures that participants of her project workshops receive a mixture of theory, actual examples of their application, and practical tips.

For over 20 years, Angela has helped numerous global organisations increase their project management capability and improve efficiencies in their delivery. Some of Angela's notable clients include the Department of Veterans' Affairs, ANSTO, Australian Wool Innovation, PWC, MBM, and NRL. Her experience in the field ensures that she's not only able to provide students with an understanding of the principles of project management, but also give examples of how these can produce successful outcomes on projects. On every new project and program, Angela is constantly learning new skills and techniques which keep her workshops current and relevant.

Angela has a Bachelor of Arts, a Post Graduate Certificate of Marketing and an Advanced Diploma of Project Management. In 2001, she became a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and member of the Project Management Institute. She is a PRINCE2 Practitioner and holds Project+ certification with CompTIA. Angela has a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment and is also a Myers Briggs accredited facilitator. She sat on the Board of Project Management Institute Sydney Chapter for two years and Nominating Committee for three years.

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Dr Jessamine Chen is a registered Clinical Psychologist and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Emotional Health, Department of Psychology, Macquarie University. Previously, Jessamine was the Head of the WSLHD Anxiety Treatment and Research Unit, Westmead Hospital. Her current research focuses on psychological interventions for older adults. She is currently the coordinator of a NHMRC clinical trial study on improving mental health and social participation outcomes in older adults with anxiety and depression.

In addition to her PhD research which investigated appraisal bias under uncertainty in generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), Jessamine has been involved in a number of clinical research projects, including a prospective study examining the long-term effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for adult anxiety disorders in an outpatient setting. Clinically, Jessamine has specialised in the treatment of anxiety and related disorders in children, adolescents, and adults for over 10 years. She has had extensive clinical experience in private and public sectors, including delivery of stepped-cared treatment for adults in a public health outpatient setting.

Jessamine has been involved in the training and supervision of provisional psychologists since 2008. She has also been an invited lecturer at a number of universities in Sydney.

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Junping Chen has a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in English, Chinese and language teaching methodology from Shanxi Teacher’s University, China and a Graduate Diploma in TEFL from the University of Sydney. He has worked as a teacher and coordinator at secondary and tertiary level in China and has extensive teaching experience teaching Mandarin to adults in Australia.

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Peggy Chen. Tutor of CCE

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Shuang has had 6 years extensive language teaching experience in both Australia and overseas including teaching Chinese and English in a prestigious university in China, the Beijing Foreign Studies University. Shuang also co-founded a language training company in Beijing specialising in tailor-made language programs for international corporations. Her students come from a diverse nationalities and backgrounds including high profile business professionals.

Shuang’s experience in the business world and teaching in a multi-cultural environment ensure the learners are well-informed of the up-to-date Chinese business culture. She cares about individual students learning needs and help them achieve their personal goals. She is also good at encouraging the learners to use the language and knowledge learnt in the classroom and apply them in real life situations.

Shuang holds a Master degree in TESOL from UNSW and a Bachelor degree in English Language and Literature from Capital Normal University in China.

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Xi Ping Chen is the Coordinator of the Chinese language program and teacher at CCE and CI at the University of Sydney. She has recently also been teaching Chinese at Macquarie and Wollongong Universities. Her extensive experience in the design, development and teaching of Chinese courses at various campuses of TAFE NSW is spread over 20 years. This has ranged over all levels and to students from Chinese speaking background and non Chinese speaking background. Besides teaching, her professional interests have included creating materials for online courses, writing modularised self learning packages and structuring course syllabi.

Prior to moving to Australia Xi Ping was a German interpreter and translator in both Germany and China for high level seminars, symposia, conferences and political discourse. She has translated extensive ranges of documents, books and technical papers to publishing standard.

Xi Ping graduated from Shanghai Foreign Language University majoring in German and Mandarin Linguistics. She has returned to China numerous times for further study at Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing Normal University and East China Normal University (Shanghai). In 2009 she was honoured in winning the NSW Premiers Teacher Scholarship for Chinese which again enabled advanced study in China. She also has the Certificate IV in Training and Assessment.

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Xiao Chen graduated from Yunnan Normal University, People’s Republic of China with a BA and Diploma in Language Education (TEFL) in 1982, and then from Sydney University with an MA in Applied Linguistics (Curriculum and Methodology) in 1992. She has extensive experience in language teaching and program development at school and university, in China and Australia. Xiao Chen developed the introductory course materials: Hanyu ABC and Hanyu Reader for Mandarin elementary levels in CCE. In the past 10 years she has been convening the Mandarin Chinese courses in the Centre and now is also the study tour leader for CCE language and culture program to P. R. China.