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is, it is argued that learning English vocabulary makes great contribution to the development of grammar, listening, speaking, reading and writing, and to the enrichment of English culture knowledge. Words are the basic sense units of a language. However, as for the high school students, they will see great improvements if they learn more vocabularies and expresses, so the English teaching is so important. All English teachers of the high school should take this into consideration. It should be understood that vocabulary teaching is one of the most important segments through out the whole procedure of English teaching. The purpose of the vocabulary teaching is to make the students master the vocabulary, use the vocabulary freely and lay the base for their English learning. Because students are the body of the teaching, the teacher just play a leading role. All teaching activities must focus on the students. It can be inferred that English teachers consciously or unconsciously make use of various strategies in their The Application of Conceptual Metaphor to English Vocabulary Teaching in High School 牡丹江师范学院西方语言学院 20xx 届英语专业学士学位论文 5 vocabulary teaching. IV. The Use of Conceptual Metaphor to English Vocabulary Teaching of High School The application of conceptual metaphor lies not only in improving students‟ abilities to memorize the vocabulary, but also in enhancing students‟ abilities of understanding. So the application of conceptual metaphor in high school English vocabulary teaching plays a key role to the students. Problems of English Vocabulary Teaching of High School As we all know, vocabulary is one of the important aspects in language teaching and learning. In recent years, as for the English vocabulary teaching, the students really have got many achievements in this field. But there are still a lot of problems which keep the teachers and the students on the bay. First, as teachers always teach words in isolation, students cannot use them properly in practice. In the whole process of vocabulary teaching, a lot of teachers only instruct the pronunciation, part of speech and meaning of words and pay little attention to the context in which words are used. They just aim to enlarge the students‟ range of vocabulary, neglecting the students‟ receptive petence. Second, high school language teachers devote themselves to the improvement of vocabulary quantity. They try their best to help the students enlarge their vocabulary. Both the teachers and the students believe that the size of vocabulary is just vocabulary acquisition. The students don‟t know how to use the vocabularies correctly. They just know nothing but the basic meaning of the vocabulary. Third, teachers only teach knowledge, and do not teach vocabulary learning strategies. Teachers rarely guide the students to apply some vocabulary learning strategies. Students tend to get the vocabulary learning strategies through their own learning experience. For that reason, students‟ vocabulary learning is inefficient. Last, vocabulary teaching is detached from culture, and lacks practice. For vocabulary learning, teachers only require the students to be able to listen, speak, read, The Application of Conceptual Metaphor to English Vocabulary Teaching in High School 牡丹江师范学院西方语言学院 20xx 届英语专业学士学位论文 6 write, and make simple sentences with words. Some teachers themselves do not have a good mand of cultural knowledge. Without understanding the pragmatic meaning and cultural meaning of the words, they cannot really understand and apply words freely. All these facts indicate that a new method that can facilitate vocabulary teaching and learning must be explored. In light of the above problems, how to resolve these problems has bee an urgent topic, so an efficient method is needed to push foreign language teaching forward, and the notion of introducing metaphor into English teaching and learning is an inspiration. Importance of Conceptual Metaphor to English Vocabulary Teaching Metaphor in one form or another is absolutely fundamental to the way language systems develop over time. The meaning of vocabulary is indispensably related with its conceptual function. Limited amount of vocabulary was adopted by people to express the limited words within their touch, but with the development of the human society and their ideation ability， they were confronted with an increasing larger range of new thing. So we should adapt the conceptual metaphor to the vocabulary learning. It is true that high school English learners seldom use metaphors in their writing. As far as vocabulary is concerned, there are several points for consideration, but, if the dull and ineffective learning and teaching process has exhausted learners‟ interests in learning the vocabulary. Vocabulary is insufficient。 learners are incapable of distinguishing words similar in forms, they have difficulty in vocabulary knowledge. According to Conceptual Metaphor Theory, it is both a language phenomenon and a cognition tool based on socialcultural background, thus having a correct relationship with language teaching and acquisition is quite important. Applications of Conceptual Metaphor to Vocabulary Teaching There are many aspects of the conceptual metaphor plays a vital role in the Th。