He received his teacher education training at Nanjing Normal University, China and was awarded his Ph.D. degree by the Graduate School of Education at La Trobe University, Australia. He is one of the pioneer trainers of Chinese language teachers for schools in Australia. Dr. Chen has published widely in the field of language education. Two of his research books are well known in China. One is an English book entitled The teaching of cultures in foreign language education. The other is a Chinese book entitled Research on teaching strategies for learning language and culture.Dr. Chen received an Award for Excellence in Teaching and was recommended for the best university teacher in Australia by his university. He has been a visiting scholar at UBC, UC Berkeley, Cambridge University and Hong Kong University.