What methodology do Farrell, Azipe and McAdam use in their study? What methods? How did their assumptions shape their research finddings? Why is or isn't this a valid study?
Using the book "The Arrival" by Shaun Tan researchers Farrell, Arizpe and McAdam observed, collected data and analysed how immigrant and non-immigrant children construct meaning from visual images. Thus immigrant children had difficulties in expressing themselves in writing. For example, when pictures from
"The Arrival" book were shown to both an immigrant and non-immigrant child the immigrant child showed his ability to respond to them based on his/her own life experience, where as the non-immgrant child did not.
By doing this experiment researchers used annotated spreads as a method to decode strategies of visual analysis used by both immigrant and no-immagrant children. the researchers concluded that the differences between these children is that the immigrant child was able to respond because of his/her own life experiences. Annotated spreads were composed of four categories: experiential, interpersonal, compositional and interpretive.
I think researchers did a valid study even though they recognized that their research is a work in progress and needs to be fine tuned. Their approach gave valuable explanations, answers, clues to how children constract meaning from visual image. It will help them to develop critical literacy skills.
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