外语教学中隐喻能力的培养

Cultivation of Metaphoric Competence in Foreign Language Education

隐喻能力是人们熟练掌握一种语言的重要标志。在外语教学中,隐喻能力的形成有助于学习者语言能力和交际能力的培养,也有助于其创新思维和表达能力的提升。教师在授课时应该有意识地引导学生认识母语和二语在认知方式上的差异,帮助学生建立目的语认知框架和概念系统,减少或避免受到母语负迁移的干扰。为达到这一目标,教师可以引导学生广泛阅读含有丰富隐喻表达的语言材料,进行灵活使用隐喻表达的语言练习,培养学习者的隐喻能力,以便在词汇、阅读及写作技巧的训练中获得更好的效果。

Metaphoric competence is an important indication of the mastery of a language.Metaphor can not only enrich the linguistic expressio ns and enhance the communicative competence,but also help the learners to think creatively.Therefore,L2 language teachers need to help the students notice th e differences in cognitive methods between L1 and L2 language and build a simila r conceptual system as target language users to decrease or avoid the interference of negative transfer of mother tongue.It is feasible and effective to cultivate L2 learners＇ metaphoric competence by making full use of the cognitive function of metaphor in the training of lexical,reading and writing skills.