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Journeys across visual borders: Annotated spreads of The Arrival by Shaun Tan as a method for understanding pupils’ creation of meaning through visual images

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Farrell, M., Arizpe, E. & McAdam, J. Journeys across visual borders: Annotated spreads of The Arrival by Shaun Tan as a method for understanding pupils’ creation of meaning through visual images. AJLL 33, 198–210 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03651835

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