Associate Professor Werner Botha

Dean, Education

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

place Humanities
GPO Box 2100, ADELAIDE, SA, 5001

Werner Botha is Associate Professor in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University, Australia. His research interests include educational linguistics, English in Asian higher education, language variation, multilingualism, and sociolinguistics. He is Co-Editor of The Routledge Handbook of English-medium Instruction in Higher Education (Routledge), as well as The Handbook of Asian Englishes (Wiley Blackwell), Editorial Board Member of the journals Language Matters and Educational Studies (Taylor and Francis), and Associate Editor for the Wiley journal World Englishes.

Qualifications

PhD, Linguistics

Honours, awards and grants

Recognised among 24 scholars in Humanities, Arts and Literature in The Australian research citations, listed as the most cited researcher for English Language and Literature between 2015-2020.

Key responsibilities

Werner is the topic co-ordinator and teaches the following topics:

(1) Academic and Professional Communication

(2) Language in Society

Topic coordinator
COMS9002 Postgraduate English Enhancement
LING2004 Language in Society
COMS1001 Academic and Professional Communication