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27 - Case Study Research in Multilingual Contexts

from Part VI - Research Methods in L3/Ln

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2023

By
Björn Hammarberg
Edited by
Jennifer Cabrelli ,
Adel Chaouch-Orozco ,
Jorge González Alonso ,
Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares ,
Eloi Puig-Mayenco  and
Jason Rothman
Jennifer Cabrelli
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Chicago
Adel Chaouch-Orozco
Affiliation:
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Jorge González Alonso
Affiliation:
Universidad Nebrija, Spain and UiT, Arctic University of Norway
Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Eloi Puig-Mayenco
Affiliation:
King's College London
Jason Rothman
Affiliation:
UiT, Arctic University of Norway and Universidad Nebrija, Spain
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Summary

This chapter presents and discusses the methodological approach of case study in connection with research on third language acquisition and other areas of multilingualism and gives an overview of occurring case studies in these fields. After a brief introduction, the first section deals with the purpose of case study and characteristic features such as the real-life orientation and the holistic perspective, as well as the issue of generalizability. The second section discusses the nature and development of multilingual linguistic repertoires. Case studies here often cover large and complex repertoires. The overview of studies in the next section has a main focus on the third language acquisition area, but also deals with related thematic areas such as intercomprehension processes, polyglotism, linguistic autobiographies, and studies visualizing the multilingual subject.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Third Language Acquisition , pp. 696 - 723
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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