| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-11页 |
| ABBREVIATIONS | 第11-15页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第15-21页 |
| ·The Background of the Study | 第15-17页 |
| ·The Significance of the Research | 第17-18页 |
| ·The Organization of the Research | 第18-21页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review and Framework | 第21-37页 |
| ·Literature Review | 第21-25页 |
| ·The Research on Metaphoric Competence Abroad | 第21-23页 |
| ·The Research on Metaphoric Competence in China | 第23-25页 |
| ·Framework | 第25-33页 |
| ·Contemporary Theory of Metaphor | 第25-33页 |
| ·The Cognitive Function of Metaphor | 第25-27页 |
| ·Conceptual Metaphor Theory | 第27-28页 |
| ·Classification of Conceptual Metaphor | 第28-30页 |
| ·Characteristics of Conceptual Metaphor | 第30-33页 |
| ·Linguistic Competence, Communicative Competence and Metaphoric competence | 第33-37页 |
| ·Linguistic Competence | 第33页 |
| ·Communicative Competence | 第33-34页 |
| ·Metaphoric competence | 第34-35页 |
| ·The Relation between Three Competence | 第35-37页 |
| Chapter Three An Experimental Study | 第37-60页 |
| ·Purpose of the Research | 第37页 |
| ·Research Design | 第37-39页 |
| ·Subjects | 第38页 |
| ·Instruments | 第38-39页 |
| ·Procedures and Designe of Test | 第39-48页 |
| ·Pretest | 第39-40页 |
| ·Experimental Teaching | 第40-47页 |
| ·The Experimental Teaching Materials | 第40页 |
| ·The Procedures of Experimental Teaching | 第40-47页 |
| ·Posttests | 第47-48页 |
| ·English Achievement Tests | 第48页 |
| ·Data Analysis and Discussion | 第48-60页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第48页 |
| ·Data Description | 第48-55页 |
| ·Discussion | 第55-60页 |
| ·The Relationship between Students’ Metaphoric Competence and College English Teaching and Acquisition | 第56-57页 |
| ·The Teachability and Learnability of Metaphoric Competence | 第57-60页 |
| Chapter Four The Strategies of Cultivating Students’ Metaphoric Competence | 第60-68页 |
| ·Reinforcing L2 Teachers’ Knowledge in Cognitive Metaphor | 第60页 |
| ·Cultivating the L2 Learners’ Metaphor Comprehension Competence | 第60-62页 |
| ·Focusing on Developing Students’ Metaphoric Thinking | 第62-63页 |
| ·Helping Students Strengthen the Awareness of Metaphor | 第63-64页 |
| ·Paying Attention to Imparting the Western Cultural Knowledge | 第64-66页 |
| ·Helping Students to Master the Working Mechanism of Metaphor | 第66-68页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusions | 第68-72页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第68-69页 |
| ·Limitations of the Present Research | 第69-70页 |
| ·Suggestions for Future Research | 第70-72页 |
| Bibliography | 第72-76页 |
| AppendixⅠ Pretest on Metaphoric Competence | 第76-80页 |
| Appendix II Posttest on Metaphoric Competence | 第80-84页 |
| Appendix III Scores of the Art Subjects’ in the EC | 第84-86页 |
| Appendix IV Scores of the Art Subjects’ in the CC | 第86-88页 |
| Appendix V Scores of the Chinese Subjects’ in the EC | 第88-90页 |
| Appendix VI Scores of the Chinese Subjects’ in the CC | 第90-92页 |
| Appendix VII | 第92-95页 |
