CASE STUDY APPROACH IN SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING RESEARCH
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then discusses the advalllages of using the case study approach to examine
L2 learning. alld highlights some types of research questions thai can be addressed usillg this approach. Furthemwfe, the limi.tations of case study will be examined and the ways to deal with them will be discussed. Finally,
this article analyzes samp'e case studies recently conducted to provide
insights on how this approach can be applied usefully in the context of second language learning.
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