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Methodology

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Methodology (the systematic procedures of data collection and analysis) is closely related to a researcher’s philosophy, including ontology (the nature of reality) and epistemology (beliefs about the nature of knowledge). This chapter first explains and discusses three research approaches: quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods. And then the chapter provides the rationale of adopting mixed methods in the current study and explains the philosophy behind it. This chapter ends with the research design adopted in this study and the summary of this chapter.

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Kong, J. (2019). Methodology. In: Investigating the Role of Test Methods in Testing Reading Comprehension. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7021-2_5

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