A Brief Analysis of How Metaphor Awareness Benefits College English Vocabulary Teaching

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10.2991/icemc-17.2017.109How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Cognitive linguistics, Metaphor, conceptual metaphor, Metaphor awareness, Image schema

Abstract

This essay aims to explore how metaphor awareness in discipline of cognitive linguistics will benefit vocabulary teaching and learning in College English Class. The notion 'metaphor awareness' mentioned here is mainly for teachers in their teaching, which implies recommendations such as teacher training, more teaching materials supplied, an interactive platform such as forums, web-zone, twitter, for sharing teaching ideas and experiences to better English teaching in class, and help students with their English vocabulary learning.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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