大学非英语专业学生隐喻能力与英语听力水平相关性研究-外国语言学及应用语言学专业论文.docx

万方数据 万方数据 A Study on the Relationship between Metaphoric Competence and English Listening Proficiency of College Non-English Majors By Dong Zhenfei Under the Supervision of Associate Professor Wu Jing Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts College of Foreign Languages Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics March 2014 DECLARATION I hereby declare that this submission is my own work and that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, it contains no material previously published or written by another person or material which has to a substantial extent been accepted for the award of any other degree or diploma at any university or other institute of higher learning, except where due acknowledgment has been made in the text. Signature: Name: Date: 南京航空航天大学硕士学位论文 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Without invaluable help from my many teachers, this paper would never have been completed. First and foremost, my sincerest gratitude must go to my respected and excellent supervisor, dear Professor Wu Jing, who gave me encouragement and inspiring guidance unfailingly and even took great trouble to proofread and improve my paper more than once. Under her patient instructions, I have made great progress not only in how to conduct research on applied linguistics but also in how to cultivate a rigorous academic attitude. Naturally, I owe a lot to many other teachers in the College of Foreign Languages, especially Professor He Jiangsheng, Professor Tang Chengxian, Professor Guo Chunjie, Professor Cai Zhongyuan, Professor Wang Xiuwen. Their inspiring lectures have broadened my horizon and given me insight into the subject of this research. I am also very obliged to assistant teacher Ms Zheng Xiao and her students, who willingly participated in the study as my subjects. Besides, Ms. Zheng gave me valuable advice and help in the teaching experiment and actually helped grade the test papers used in the experiment, without which this study wou