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[Linh]

Please help me answer the following questions:
- What is case study?
- What are the features/ characteristics of a case study?
- How is it different from other kinds of research?

Thank you!

[Anuradha Chepur]

Case study is one of the research methodologies.
It involves in-depth study and analysis of a few individual
cases and inferences based on them.

For instance, if you are researching the grammatical aspects of
code-mixing in early bilinguals, you may pick a small number of
early bilingual children, study them in detail: their languages, their environment, their sentences, etc. You then analyse the data
and draw inferences.