Story-builder: Picture Cards for Language Activities
Goals
"Story-builder is an adaptable set of picture cards designed to facilitate creative story-telling and elicit natural speech on a wide range of topics. Speakers use 'character cards' and 'action cards' to create visual stories, which can be narrated in the speakers' own words. The deck can be adapted for a wide range of purposes, from field linguistic research to language pedagogy and games."(Typological tools for field linguistics website, https://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/tools-at-lingboard/stimulus_kits.php)
Protocol summary
"The Story-builder deck visually represents basic verbs from across the semantic spectrum, making it particularly useful for studying verb classes and argument structure." (Typological tools for field linguistics website, https://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/tools-at-lingboard/stimulus_kits.php)
There are 22 character cards and 55 action cards. One can also download the 'Story-builder manual' on its website (http://www.story-builder.ca)
Development context
"Story-builder was initiated as a Cognitive Systems 402 research project at the University of British Columbia." (Katie Sardinha, http://www.story-builder.ca)