| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第5-7页 |
| Abstract in English | 第7-9页 |
| Tables & Charts Contents | 第9-12页 |
| 1. Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| 2. Literature Review | 第16-37页 |
| ·Definitions of Metaphor | 第16-20页 |
| ·Definitions of Metaphor in Different Theories | 第16-19页 |
| ·The Coverage of the Term Metaphor in This Thesis | 第19-20页 |
| ·Categorizing Metaphor | 第20-25页 |
| ·Conceptual Metaphor and Linguistic Metaphor | 第20-23页 |
| ·Similarity-Based Metaphor and Similarity-Creating Metaphor | 第23-24页 |
| ·Conventional Metaphor and Novel Metaphor | 第24-25页 |
| ·Some Accounts of Cognitive View of Metaphor | 第25-29页 |
| ·Teachability of Metaphor | 第29-31页 |
| ·Metaphoric Competence and Conceptual Fluency | 第31-37页 |
| ·Definitions of Metaphoric Competence | 第31-33页 |
| ·Metaphoric Competence, Linguistic Competence, Communicative Competence and Strategic Competence | 第33-35页 |
| ·Conceptual Fluency | 第35-37页 |
| 3. Problems in Language Teaching & Acquisition and Possible Solutions | 第37-43页 |
| ·Problems in Language Teaching and Acquisition | 第37-40页 |
| ·Advocates of Metaphor as a Facilitator to Language Teaching and Acquisition | 第40-43页 |
| 4. A Case Study | 第43-77页 |
| ·Goals and Hypotheses | 第43-44页 |
| ·Methodology | 第44-49页 |
| ·Subjects | 第44-48页 |
| ·Experimental and Testing Materials | 第48-49页 |
| ·The Instrument | 第49页 |
| ·Process of the Research | 第49-59页 |
| ·Experimental Teaching of Metaphors | 第49-56页 |
| ·Four Metaphor Tests | 第56-59页 |
| ·Results and Discussions | 第59-73页 |
| ·Data Collection and Data Analysis | 第59-65页 |
| ·Discussions | 第65-72页 |
| ·Findings | 第72-73页 |
| ·Implication and Application | 第73-77页 |
| ·For Foreign Language Teaching | 第73-75页 |
| ·For Foreign Language Learning | 第75-76页 |
| ·For Textbook Compilation and For Language Assessment | 第76-77页 |
| 5. Conclusion | 第77-78页 |
| Bibliography | 第78-81页 |
| Appendices | 第81-89页 |
