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explore  how  to  improve  MC. Researches of that kind are many, but most of them are just appealing us to  pay  more  attention  to  the  improvement  of  MC  due  to  its  great significance  to  language  teaching  and  learning.  Only  a  few  researchers touched  upon  some  strategies  on  the  enhancement  of  MC.  One  of  the strategies is metaphor teaching. In this part, we will have an overview of metaphor teaching. The  discussion  on  whether  metaphors  can  be  learned  through instruction  may  date  back  to  the  earliest  period  of  Aristotle.  Aristotle (1954) once said the greatest thing today is to grasp metaphors. However, metaphors can not be passed onto others, and it is a sign of genius. If one wants  to  create  good  metaphors,  he  must  have  a  very  acute  insight  of similarities. Hawkes (1984) pointed out that being able to use metaphors means having the competence of perceiving the similarities between two conceptual  domains,  which  severely  relies  on  cognition  and  can  not  be learned  through  teaching.  Danesi  investigated  metaphoric  density  in  the writing  of  some  English  learners  in  Spain  who  have  learned  English  for three  or  four  years  in  classroom  context,  which  demonstrated  a  high degree of literalness. Even though the learners may use some metaphors, they  are  probably  from  their  native  language,  so  it  seems  that  this  is another  empirical  study  supporting  the  non-teachability  of  MC.  Yuan Fengshi  (2012)  also  believed  that  MC  can  hardly  be  learned  through instruction. He explained that MC is the competence of knowing objects across  domains,  which  is  reflected  through  metaphoric  thinking  process. 
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Chapter Two Theoretical Basis  

Research on MC and metaphor instruction has become a hot topic in the  foreign  language  teaching  field.  Much  of  the  interest  has  arisen  for Lackoff  and  Johnson’s  Conceptual  Metaphor  Theory  (1980),  Krashen’s Input  Hypothesis  (1985)  and  Schmidt’  s  Noticing  Hypothesis  (1990). According to the Conceptual Metaphor Theory, metaphors are found to be a means of cognition and a way of thinking, which permeate every aspect of our life and are deeply rooted in the interaction with the physical world that  we  are  all  living  in.  Therefore,  there  exist  some  similarities  among different  languages,  which  makes  it  possible  for  learners  to  acquire metaphors  from  another  langu本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。