Ms Tianshu Dong attended the MA programme in SLT at the prestigious QingHua University in 1986-87.  She was awarded a MERT Scholarship of New Zealand and was a Massey University visiting scholar.  She graduated with a Master in Education at Massey University in 1996.  Ms Dong has extensive teaching and tutorial experience in SLT.  She began in the Chinese programme in 1995 and was appointed as a tutor in 2002.