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Abasi  \nUniversity of Maryland, USA  \nMaurice C. Taylor University of Ottawa, Canada  \nAlthough video has long been used as a teaching aid in adult literacy and basic education, literacy researchers seem to have ignored the potential benefits of using video as a tool that could add rigour to research. Reporting on their field experiences of an adult literacy learning study in Canada, the authors provide a narrative account of their use of video as a data collection tool. The article describes the methodological challenges associated with the use of video data and the procedures that were used to analyse video records in their adult literacy research.  \n290 Ali R. Abasi & Maurice C. Taylor  \nDespite the potential benefits of video as a data collection tool and the increasing popularity of video data in many branches of social sciences, adult literacy researchers seem to have overlooked using video as an effective tool to enhance their research. As a case in point, a focused search conducted by the authors in major North American journals in adult literacy and basic education from 2000 to 2006 for studies that used video as a methodological tool resulted in only one study (Mellard & Scanlon 2006) relying on video as a data collection tool in an investigation of a strategic instructional model in adult basic education classrooms. Prompted by this under-utilisation, in this article we discuss the enhancing effects of video data and consider the key issues and challenges associated with the use of video in empirical research. Drawing on an adult literacy case study that we conducted in Ontario, Canada, in 2005 in which whole class sessions were video-taped, we then discuss the important issue of analysis of video data by drawing on the specific procedures that were developed to analyse the data.  \nUsing video as a data collection tool  \nThe use of video as a data collection tool in the social sciences  \ndates back to the sixties and seventies (Berliner 1969, Gottdiener 1979, Heider 1976) . However, it was only in the early 1980s when the technology became more easily accessible that video started to become an important tool in the toolbox of many social science researchers (for example, Albrecht 1985, Corsaro 1982, Grimshaw 1982, Martin & Martin 1984, Weimann 1981). Increasingly social scientists of different stripes have been relying on audio-visual data to enhance data collection and analysis (Blum-Kulka 1997, Dufon 2002, Feak & Salehzadeh 2001, Leinhardt & McCormick1996, Lomax & Casey 1998, MacDougall 1995, Penn-Edwards 2004, Ratcliff 2003) .  \nThere is a sizeable literature dealing with different aspects of the use of video in research. Part of this literature addresses the technical  \nTackling the issues and challenges of using video data in adult literacy research 291  \naspects such as how to film involving such issues as light source, typeof microphones and so on (Duranti 1997, Goodwin 1993, Jackson 1987) . Some sources deal with the important issue of transcription of video data (Asch 1988, Edwards & Lampert 1993, Green, Franquiz & Dixon 1997, Ochs 1988, Roberts 1997, Schieffelin 1990), while others discuss the issue of analysis of video data (Erickson 1992, Erickson & Schultz 1982, Goldman-Segall 1998) . Ethical aspects in the use of video have also received some attention (Arafeh & McLaughlin 2002, Besnier 1994, Ruby 2000) .  \nWithin this body of literature, a number of researchers have madea strong case for the inclusion of video as an indispensable research tool. Grimshaw (1982), for instance, has discussed the permanence of video data that provides unprecedented assistance to the field researcher. This unique feature enables the researcher to re-visit the field as many times as needed which ultimately enhances analysis and interpretation. 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