He holds a Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While Peter’s primary area of research is the role of identity and ideology in SLA, he also conducts research on English as a lingua franca and critical classroom discourse analysis. Much of his current work focuses on conducting ethical applied linguistic research, scalar approaches to language learning and teaching, language learning and emotions, and corpus-based understandings of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) genre-related challenges encountered by international university students.