A Case for A Case: A Qualitative Research Experience portrays the writer's personal experience in conducting a case study research. It illustrates a research journey and experience in which the writer undergoes in trying to understand a case which he has an in intrinsic interest, i.e, the English language panels (ELPs) in action. Primarily, it focuses on the professional roles played by the ELPs in fostering professional development of ESL teachers in different primary school contexts. This book provides practical guidelines and approaches on: • exploring issues and personal concerns as research topics, • writing qualitative research proposals, • conducting fieldwork and discovering more issues and concerns in the field, • making sense of the data collected through managing, analyzing and interpreting data, making assertions and drawing conclusions, and • writing qualitative research reports for a variety of audience.
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