affordance
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- noun
- /əˈfɔrdəns/
- Specialized
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afordancia
- The affordance of the large buttons on the app makes it easy for users to navigate.
- affordances of technology
- digital affordances
- educational affordances
And that informs your reading of that initial set of affordances of the game that makes you play that game in a particular way.
- And that informs your reading of that initial set of affordances of the game that makes you play that game in a particular way.
- Knowing this is the idea that you and the world are Co participating in things and such that real affordances exist between you.
- And the idea of affordance is, is, I think, a lovely idea and it has a big role to play in any good theory of consciousness.
Examples
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Collaborative writing software such as Google Docs features affordances that go beyond simply working together to produce a piece of writing.
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Technological affordances in social media can trigger cognitive heuristics that affect credibility judgments (Sundar, 2008).
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When our students began using Prezis, for example, we knew that an affordance of the program could also become a challenge.
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Affordance is dynamic and emerges out of the interactions between the learner and the environment.
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While preparing grammar lesson plans, L2 practitioners should take advantage of affordances.
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Care must be taken, however, that language students or even pre-service teachers learn to harness the affordances of corpus-based resources.
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We outline useful affordances technology can provide in the English language learning classroom before illustrating skills-based technology integration options.
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A multimodal framework acknowledges that modes offer certain affordances, and the interaction between modes is significant for communication.
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In general, methodologies create affordances that bring certain learning processes and/or learning outcomes into sharp relief while obscuring others.
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As wayfarers, students became attuned to the affordances available in the environment (Gibson, 1979) for composition.
Academic text (2013)
How Obvious
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Affordance comes from the verb afford ('to give' or 'make possible') and the ending -ance. So, an affordance is a feature of an object that 'allows' or 'suggests' a particular action, which is why a handle 'affords' pulling and a flat surface 'affords' placing things.