The Use of Picture Stories in the Investigation of Crosslinguistic Influence

Ⅲ One remarkable fact about the use of visual prompts in L2 research is that the characteristics that can make a picture story inappropriate for certain purposes can make that same picture story quite useful for other purposes.This is what we have found regarding our use of picture stories (and also films) in investigations of crosslinguistic and cross-cultural influences on L2 acquisition and use.From the perspective of the 33 criteria proposed by Rossiter, Derwing, and Jones (this issue) for selecting and creating effective picture stories for L2 research, we have found that picture stories that, at first glance, may be interpreted as violating