Associate Professor Werner Botha

Associate Professor, Applied Linguistics

College of Business, Government and Law

place Humanities
GPO Box 2100, ADELAIDE, SA, 5001

Werner Botha is Associate Professor in the College of Business, Creative Arts, Law and Social Sciences at Flinders University, Australia. His research interests include academic communication, educational linguistics, English in Asian higher education, 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

Top Researcher in the field of English language and literature under The Humanities, Arts & Literature of The Australian's 2020 and 2026 Research Magazine and Top 250 Researchers in Australia for 2020 and 2026. 

Key responsibilities

Werner is the topic coordinator and teaches the following topics:

(1) Academic and Professional Communication

(2) AI for Workplace Communication

Topic coordinator
COMS1001 Academic and Professional Communication
COMS9002 Postgraduate English Enhancement
COMS2005 AI for wokplace communication
Recite Me accessibility and Language Support