儿童的隐喻思维及其教学启示

Children's Metaphorical Thinking and Its Enlightenment to Teaching

儿童在4岁左右就具有了隐喻思维能力。随着年龄的增长,儿童的隐喻思维能力不断发展。在隐喻创造能力方面,随着儿童年龄以及词汇量、知识和经验的增长,儿童使用隐喻的数量呈下降态势,并能够逐步使用基于抽象性和复杂性关系的隐喻,其也越来越符合逻辑和常规。在隐喻理解能力方面,随着儿童的隐喻识别能力、知识水平和逻辑思维水平的不断提升,其隐喻理解能力也不断增强。在当前功利主义和科学主义教学的背景下,儿童的隐喻思维受到了极大的压抑。在教育教学中,我们亟需呵护和促进儿童的隐喻思维,并注重儿童逻辑思维和隐喻思维的和谐发展。

Children have metaphorical competence around the age of four. Along with the growth of age, children＇ s metaphorical competence develops continuously. In terms of creating metaphor, with the growth of children＇ s vocabulary, knowledge and experience, the number of metaphors used by children descends, the children gradually can use the metaphors based on abstract and complicated relationship, and they are more and more logical and normal. In terms of comprehending metaphor, with the rise of children＇ s recognition competence of metaphor, knowledge and logical thinking competence, their comprehension competence of metaphor also grows. Under the background of utilitarianism and scientism widespread in current teaching, children＇ s metaphorical thinking is greatly depressed. We need protect and promote children＇ s metaphorical thinking and pay attention to the harmonious development of logical thinking and metaphorical thinking in teaching.