Abstract: Given the limitations of ecolinguistics’s existing paradigms, this article proposes a construct of an ecolinguistic continuum and expounds its ontological elements and characteristics such as integrality, diversity, dynamicity, balance, relatedness, sustainability, coordination, and evolvability. Based on this construct, we propose a multi-dimensional alignment continuum model (MACM) via lexicogrammar, discourse, and context verified in an experiment that took the explicit/ideational-implicit/pragmatic markers continuum as its examples. The findings are as follows: 1) The experimental group with MACM had significant gains in listening comprehension and was superior to the comparison group. 2) Significant differences were found between the two groups in the outcomes of spoken discourse markers; the experimental group had better implicit markers output than the comparison group. Although the experimental group is more native-like, the development of the explicit-implicit markers continuum characterized both groups. These findings verified the validity and rationality of the MACM and provided strong evidence for the ecolinguistic continuum view and eco-contextualized pedagogical implications for L2 development.