Ann Hewings is Director of the Centre for Language and Communication, The Open University, UK. She is editor of the 'Worlds of English' series (2012, Routledge), and The Politics of English: Conflict, Competition, Co-existence (with Caroline Tagg, 2012, Routledge), and author of Grammar and Context (with Martin Hewings, 2005, Routledge).Lynda Prescott is Head of the Department of English, The Open University, UK. She is editor of A World of Difference – an anthology of short stories from five continents (2008, Palgrave Macmillan) and author of Open University teaching materials on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. Philip Seargeant is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics in the Centre for Language and Communication, The Open University, UK. He is author of The Idea of English in Japan: Ideology and the Evolution of a Global Language (2009, Multilingual Matters), Exploring World Englishes: Language in a Global Context (2012, Routledge), and From Language to Creative Writing (with Bill Greenwell, 2013, Bloomsbury), and editor of English in Japan in the Era of Globalization (2011, Palgrave Macmillan) and English in the World: History, Diversity, Change (with Joan Swann, 2012, Routledge).