Angela Kluge is an International Language Assessment Consultant with SIL International, the series editor for Journal of Language Survey Reports, and the head of the German SIL training program Seminar für Sprache und Kultur. Since1992, she has been involved in language survey work (West Africa, Indonesia, Malaysia), doing field research as well as teaching and training language assessment specialists. She holds an MA in Language and Communication Research from the University of Cardiff and a PhD in Linguistics from Leiden University. She is especially interested in the assessment of language clusters and continua and in nonstandard Malay varieties.