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The Design of the Study

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This chapter is mainly about the nature and design of the study. It starts with the justification for using a qualitative multi-case study approach in this study. It then introduces the selection of the research setting, target curriculum materials and teacher and student participants. Data collection procedures and the methods of data analysis are presented. In the end, the strategies for trustworthiness and the ethical concerns of the study are illustrated.

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    The “Double First-class” project is a tertiary education development initiative conceived by the People's Republic of China government in 2015, which aimed at comprehensively developing elite Chinese universities and their individual faculty departments into world-class institutions by the end of 2050.

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Li, Z. (2020). The Design of the Study. In: Language Teachers at Work. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5515-2_3

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