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8. 
Results 
This chapter presents the results of the case study. The first section is dedicated to the results 
of the teacher questionnaire, whereas the second section to the results of the pupil questionnaire. The 
analysis of the data involved both “relying on the formalised system of statistics” (QUɑN) and 
“relying on the researcher’s individual sensitivity” (QUɑL) (Dörnyei, 2007: 29). Excel tables were 
used in order to analyse the data of the questionnaires: the frequency count of each possible answer 
to each question was calculated along with the percentages. The answers to the open questions in the 
teacher questionnaire were used as support in the interpretation of the results. It is important to 
remember that not all the teachers who participated in this study were available for the administration 
of the questionnaire to their pupils. Therefore, this might have contributed to some inconsistencies 
between the results of the teachers and the results of the pupils. However, the aim of this research is 
to investigate the general trends, and it is very likely that these results can still provide a good 
overview of the situation. 
8.1. Teachers 
This section presents the results of the teacher questionnaire clustered according to the purpose 
of the questions. 
8.1.1. 
Teachers’ training and experience 
One of the teachers taught only at 2nd year level, whereas all the other teachers taught at least 
to one class at 3rd, 4th or 5th year level. As expected, only a small number of the participants had 
experience as specialist teachers (two are currently specialist teachers and one was formerly a 
specialist teacher, but currently teaching also subjects other than English), while the rest of them only 
had experience as specialised teachers. All the teachers were native Italian speakers, and none of 
them was a native English speaker. About half of the teachers (53,8%) held a University Degree or 
an equivalent qualification, whereas the other half (46,2%) held a Secondary School Diploma (Table 
5). Among the ones who held a University Degree or an equivalent qualification, three held a degree 
in Educational Sciences, two in Modern Languages, one in Sports Science, and one held a 
qualification in Translation and Interpreting Studies. The two specialist teachers held a University 
Degree in Modern Languages, and the one who was formerly a specialist teacher held a qualification 
in Translation and Interpreting Studies. Among the ones who held a Secondary School Diploma, all, 

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except for one, held a diploma with specialisation in Teacher Training, and they were all specialised 
teachers.