Improving College English Teaching Based on Metaphorical Cognition—An Empirical Study on the Application of Conceptual Metaphor Theory to College English Vocabulary Teaching

The birth of a new linguistic theory will be accompanied by its application,so will the Conceptual Metaphor Theory.The Conceptual Metaphor Theory conforms to human cognitive characteristics,knowing the unknown by the known,putting the abstract into the concrete.In view of the present time-consuming inefficient college English vocabulary teaching,applying Conceptual Metaphor Theory to College English vocabulary teaching can be regarded as a new attempt.The empirical study proves that the introduction of conceptual metaphor to classroom vocabulary teaching can produce better results than traditional vocabulary teaching in some aspects.It can remedy the defects of traditional English vocabulary teaching and thus improve College English teaching to a certain degree.