【摘要】 受传统文化和教育体制的影响,死记法是中国学生外语词汇习得的主要学习策略。该学习策略的根本问题,即学习过程的被动性和对学习主体创造性的束缚。作为解决问题的对策,笔者在词的理据性研究基础上,提出了基于隐喻的词汇习得策略。实证研究表明,基于隐喻的词汇习得策略在改变学生的死记法,发挥其语言学习主动性、创造性,提高词汇学习的效率等方面均体现出显著的优势。更多还原

【Abstract】 Chinese EFL learners are rote learners,as survey indicates.Based on the analyses of the strengths and weaknesses of rote learning,the writer highlights its fundamental problem,namely,its passivity in learning or its hindrance of learner initiative.Given the fact that lexis are,in essence,motivated,a metaphor-based learning strategy is proposed and elaborated in order to develop learner autonomy,which has been proved very effective by teaching experiment conducted.The paper concludes that lexis have their motivations and therefore,vocabulary should be acquired by some way of thinking rather than by rote.更多还原