Strategies of College English Vocabulary Teaching——From the Perspective of Conceptual Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics

Enough vocabulary is a basis in language skills,vocabulary teaching is one of the main contents in college English teaching.However,vocabulary learning is almost becoming an insuperable barrier for every university student,the conceptual metaphor theory in cognitive linguistics brings many beneficial inspirations to vocabulary teaching.This article discusses how to put this theory into college English vocabulary teaching from the perspective of cognitive metaphor,and the author points out that we should focus on the basic vocabulary,understanding multiple-meaning words through metaphor,paying attention to the cultural differences,and using metaphor to master new words.The purpose is to improve students' metaphor ability and promote students to learn vocabulary efficiently.