隐喻对英语教学的启示.pdfVIP

In the above, Lin Ma illustrated the metaphors Obama used in his two victorious speeches. And now, I’d like to say something about the enlightenment that metaphors could bring to English teaching practice. Through Lin Ma’s analysis, we know that metaphors abound in both Chinese and English like 鐵石心腸，snow-white etc. However, a large number of English learners still have difficulty memorizing words, distinguishing phrases, writing compositions and speaking correctly and authentically. In fact, metaphors contributes partly to it, in other words, metaphors can help to solve such problems to some extent. Chinese is different from English in terms of thinking patterns and so on. Chinese people tend to use words that they can directly sense through organs like eyes, noses, etc, to describe things, while native English speakers tend to describe things from their nature. For instance, we call this ― 紅綠燈‖ ，apparently from the perspective of colors. Then, let ’s take a look at what it is in English, it is called ―traffic light‖, it is get depicted in terms of its function. The distinction in thinking between the two languages also exists metaphorically. So it is of prime importance to grasp metaphors before truly learning English well. Chinese ：紅綠燈 （description in terms of colors ） English: traffic light (description in terms of function) Now, I’d like to show you respectively from the following aspects: words, expressions, writing and …. Feasibility Learning Mechanism According to Kant, only when the already existed information in a hearer’s brain is associated with what he receives can a new meaning be brought about. Professor Gui Shichun holds that the process of learning is one in which old and new information interact. The learner activates the acquired knowledge, and then the activated knowledge interplays wit