Werner Botha is Senior Lecturer in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University, Australia. His research interests include the use of English in Asian higher education, language variation, multilingualism, and sociolinguistics, with particular reference to the Asian region. He is the Co-Editor of The Handbook of Asian Englishes, published by Wiley Blackwell, and the Assistant Editor for the Wiley journal World Englishes.