NTCI

I think that this statement reveals a big difference between NTCI and TPRS:
“In non-targeted comprehensible input (NTCI) we use images as the starting point to impart language to our students and not the other way around. It is because images are more interesting than words to kids, especially when it is they who create the images. Images propel the conscious mind into happy focus on the bizarre and humorous invisible creations that the kids make, as we stealthily feed their unconscious minds with the language, which is exactly how the research says language acquisition happens. Thus, language gains flow far more quickly from images because of the compelling levels of interest they generate. This is not possible when we work from high frequency lists, thematic unit lists, semantic set lists, or lists of words used in backwards planning of novels, or when a summative test holds sway over the instruction.”