Research on Lexical Items Presentation Based on Conceptual Metaphor with Development of Information

This research is aimed to test whether presentation of metaphorical connections among senses of words is significantly effective to improve nonEnglish majors’ memory of new words. Three experiments were conducted after pilot teaching and a pretext, in which two meanings of each word (totally 30 words) were offered to the EG and CG respectively through the proposed approach and traditional approach, then subjects received a post test and a oneweek delayed test after each experiment. Subsequently an interview was held about practicality and interestingness of the vocabulary teaching method. Qualitative analyses (spss15.0 was used) indicate that there is significant difference between the t-test mean scores of EG and those of CG. The results of interview show that most subjects in EG think the proposed approach is feasible and interest-motivating, because metaphor offers them clues in word