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Experiencing Compelling Comprehensible Input

	Rationale for non-targeted, Comprehensible Input instruction
	Dr. Stephen Krashen on language acquisition and Comprehensible Input
	Jeff Brown on independent language acquisition using non-targeted, Comprehensible Input
Examples of teachers using Comprehensible Input
	Dr. Beniko Mason using Story Listening in English
	Dr. Beniko Mason using Story Listening in English
	Ben Slavic: example of One-word Image character creation in French
	Tina Hargaden: example of One-word Image character creation in Spanish
	Senor Mississippi: example of One-word Image character creation in Spanish
	Collaborative Storytelling: TPRS (Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling) as an RPG (role playing game)
Resources for teachers: images in the files below were found online with Google Images searches and were "Labeled for reuse" under "Usage rights".
	One-word Image activities guide file for ASL Includes character creation, story creation, film making, and role playing game (RPG)
	Student Interview for Spanish from Mike Peto Subscribe to his blog.
	Student Interview for Japanese
	Student Interview for ASL
Examples of students' work produced in connection with One-word Image characters and stories:
	Ms. Rain Bow: example of a One-word Image character created and drawn by college students
	Octavia Avocado: example of a One-word Image character created and drawn by college students
	Isu Riku: example of a character created and drawn by elementary school students using the One-word Image activity in Japanese with text added by the teacher later for students to read.
	Kjøttbollen Nils: example of a character created and drawn by elementary school students using the One-word Image activity in Norwegian with text added by the teacher later for students to read.
	Peri Pizza & Tina Tank have a snowball fight with Vladimir Putin: example of a story created and drawn by high school students in a follow-up activity to the One-word Image character creation
	No second date for Delilah Dragon & Marty Microwave: example of a story created and drawn by college students in a follow-up activity to the One-word Image character creation
	Examples of One-word Image characters from Comprehensible Cascadia 2017 in Portland, Oregon
	Shirley Shoe: example of a follow-up activity to a One-word Image character in which adult students (fellow foreign language teachers) film, act out, and do post-production editing of the character's story they created. The teacher narrates the story in the target language to provide Comprehensible Input to students when they watch the video for review. In the case of ASL, a heritage learner or other advanced student can be used to voice interpret the teacher's narration into English. Videos can also be used as beginner-level texts for future students.