Author(s)

Weirong Li ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ The School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Guangzhou Civil Aviation College, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510403, China

Corresponding Author

Weirong Li

ABSTRACT

The affordance of grammar teaching is the action possibility or opportunity that the learner perceives and the grammar learning environment provides. From the perspective of ecological and social cultural theory, the occurrence mechanism of grammar learning is the “perception-action” cycle of the interaction between the learner and the learning environment. Therefore, grammar teaching should pay attention to the effective transformation of environmental affordances. Against the background of information technology, the effective transformation of grammar teaching can be analyzed from three aspects: ecological task design, ecological network environment support and ecological learning community construction. The analysis results suggest that grammar teaching should focus on the implementation of overall teaching, pay attention to individual differences, and give full play to the initiative of students.

KEYWORDS

Affordance, Grammar teaching, Ecological environment, Social culture, Transformation

CITE THIS PAPER

Weirong Li. An Analysis of the Affordance Transformation Path in English Grammar Teaching Based on Ecological and Social Cultural Perspectives. Journal of Sociology and Ethnology (2021) 3: 138-144. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jsoce.2021.030218.

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