| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-10页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第10-14页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第14-21页 |
| ·A Historical Retrospect of the Studies on Metaphor | 第14-17页 |
| ·Brief Review on the Study of Metaphor in SLA | 第17-21页 |
| Chapter 3 Cognitive Study on Metaphor and Its Facilitation to Second Language Acquisition | 第21-46页 |
| ·Cognitive Study on Metaphor-Conceptual Metaphor | 第21-37页 |
| ·Structural Metaphor as a Facilitator of SLA | 第37-40页 |
| ·Orientational Metaphor as a Facilitator of SLA | 第40-43页 |
| ·Ontological Metaphor as a Facilitator of SLA | 第43-46页 |
| Chapter 4 Cultivation of Metaphorical Competence in Second Language Acquisition | 第46-98页 |
| ·Metaphorical Competence and Its Significances in SLA | 第47-56页 |
| ·An Empirical Study | 第56-67页 |
| ·Cultivation of Metaphorical Competence by Virtue of Input Hypothesis | 第67-98页 |
| ·Vocabulary Building | 第75-87页 |
| ·Writing Improvement | 第87-98页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第98-101页 |
| Works Cited | 第101-105页 |
| Appendix 1 | 第105-107页 |
| Appendix 2 | 第107-108页 |
| Appendix 3 | 第108-110页 |
| Appendix 4 | 第110-111页 |
| Appendix 5 | 第111-112页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间发表的论文和取得的科研成果 | 第112页 |
