隐喻教学和英语专业学生思辨能力的培养

Study on Metaphor in the Cultivation of English Majors' Critical Thinking Skills

隐喻是人类认知的手段,是以语言为载体的思维现象。高校人才培养质量的一个重要指标就是思辨能力培养,我国英语专业学生思辨能力的培养并未得到足够的重视,思辨缺席引起了英语教学界的关注。以隐喻的认知功能及其教学功能为理论依据,探讨在英语专业教学中如何通过隐喻教学来提高学生的思辨能力。

Metaphor is seen as a rhetorical device and also a thinking mode of human. One of the most important indicators of the quality of Higher Teaching is Critical Thinking Training. Less attention has been paid in the development of English Majors＇ critical thinking. Absence of critical thinking has been a hot issue in the field of foreign language teaching recently. On the basis of metaphor＇ s cognitive function and its and teaching Function,this paper presents that the application o f metaphor in English major teaching is the effective method to improve English major＇ s critical thinking.