Robin E. Harvey
Clinical Associate Professor of TESOL, Bilingual and World Language Education
Teaching and Learning
Dr. Robin E. Harvey (何柔彬) is a Clinical Associate Professor of TESOL, Bilingual and World Language Education in the Department of Teaching & Learning. She is Director of NYU's Project for Developing Chinese Language Teachers (DCLT), and former program director of NYU’s StarTalk Immersion Training Program for Teachers of Chinese (K-6). She was instrumental in the development of the NYU Steinhardt-NYU Shanghai joint MA TESOL program, and has acted as Co-Director and instructor in the program. She is a former middle school Mandarin teacher in New York and children's English teacher in Taiwan. In 2002, Dr. Harvey founded Greenwich Village Chinese (西村中文), an afterschool and summer Chinese language program for students from toddler to 8th grade. Harvey is co-author with Pauline Huang of Rhythms and Tones: Inventive Songs & Chants for Learning Chinese (动感中文 1, Chinasprout, 2010), and Rhythms and Tones 2 (动感中文2, Chinasprout, 2012). She is a member of Asia Society's Chinese Early Language Immersion Network (CELIN) and of the board of directors of the Chinese Language Teachers Association of Greater New York (CLTA-GNY). Her research focuses on Chinese language teacher education and pedagogy, language and literacy development in early childhood and childhood bilingual and immersion settings, inquiry-based pedagogy, and language learning, and pedagogical approaches to teaching across global contexts.
Selected Publications
Harvey, R. E., & Wong, K. M. (2024). Promoting emergent literacy in preschool through extended discourse: Covert translanguaging in a Mandarin immersion environment. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14687984241276292
Harvey, R. E., & Brooks, P. J. (2022). Effects of text messaging using digital Pinyin input on literacy skills of elementary school Chinese immersion learners. Language Teaching Research, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13621688221099909
Wang, S.C., Harvey, R., Wong, K.M., & Peyton, J.K. (2022). A Blueprint for Chinese Immersion Preschools in the United States: Imagining the Possibilities. New York, NY: Asia Society.
Wang, S.C., Harvey, R., & Peyton, J.K. (2021). An Emerging Field: Chinese Immersion Preschool Education. In S.C. Wang & J.K. Peyton (Eds.), CELIN Briefs Series. New York, NY: Asia Society.
Harvey, R.E., & Silva, D. M. (2018). Cultivating Teacher Leaders to Advance the Field of Chinese Language and Culture Education. In S.C. Wang & J.K. Peyton (Eds.), CELIN Briefs Series. New York, NY: Asia Society.
Harvey, R. (2018). Integrating Chinese International Students into American Colleges, In J. Liontas (Ed.), TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching. Malden, MA: Wiley.
