The Teaching Strategies for Metaphorical Competence of Chinese College English Learners in Internet Era

Internet new era brings both opportunities and new requirements for College English Teaching in China. According to the latest college English Teaching Guide (2020 Edition), much importance should be attached to cultivating students’ English application ability and enhancing their cross-cultural communication ability. In order to achieve this goal, the cultivation of foreign language metaphor ability is indispensable. Based on the conceptual metaphor theory and the definition of metaphorical competence in the field of cognitive linguistics, and the current level of College Students’ English Metaphorical Competence in China, this paper puts forward the top-level design concept and the explicit and implicit metaphorical competence teaching strategies, so as to improve the level of college students’ foreign language metaphorical competence in China.