Tracy Hong is a Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the Asia Institute, Faculty of Arts, the University of Melbourne.

She has worked in tertiary education and adult contexts across Australia and China for over 20 years. Tracy is a reflective educator whose approach is informed by student-centred principles and grounded in academic research. She has extensive experience teaching in Chinese as a Second/Heritage Language (CSL/CHL) at both the University of Melbourne (2017 – present) and Monash University (2018 -2022). Additionally, her earlier experience teaching English as a Second Language at Adult Migration Education Services Australia has strengthened her capacity to engage effectively with students from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Tracy has received the “Excellent Mentor” prize from the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in Melbourne for four consecutive years (2023 -2026).

Tracy’s research focuses on pedagogical innovations in CSL/CHL, L2 assessment, L2 motivational studies, and multilingualism in higher education. Her recent research includes a faculty-level team project with a group of prominent experts on Multiculturalism and Multilingualism in the Workplace, a program-level team project on the impact of Artificial Intelligence on Chinese writing, and a cross-institutional project on Chinese External Assessment in two Australian States.

Tracy actively works as a member of the Language Dynamics in the Asia Pacific research cluster and the Victoria Chinese Language Teaching Association (Tertiary), receiving two internal seed grants as lead researcher to support her research:

2026 Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies (CCCS) 2026 Seed Funding, the University of Melbourne, Project title: Handwriting vs Digital writing? An innovative pedagogy of Chinese teaching in the AI era, with Dr Lily Fu ($800)
2025 Language Dynamics in the Asia-Pacific (LDAP) Research Cluster Support Scheme, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, Project title: Handwriting vs Digital writing? An innovative pedagogy of Chinese teaching in the AI era, with Dr Lily Fu ($1000)

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