The Influence of Students’ Metaphorical Awareness on the Understanding of English Idioms

Liying Cao

Hunan Institute of Engineering, Xiangtan, 411104, China

Abstract: With the development of world globalization, English, a generally used language, is gradually in-cluded in the compulsory education curriculum by countries. For second language learners, metaphorical awareness has an important influence. Especially on the understanding of English idioms for those whose second language is English. The cognitive based on metaphorical awareness have both positive and negative influences on students’ understanding of English idioms. Thus, on this basis, this paper detailed elaborated the influence of students’ metaphorical awareness on the understanding of English idioms and its outcome.

Keywords: Metaphorical awareness; Students’ understanding; English idioms; The influence on the idioms