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4.1 Research Questions ....................................... 41

4.2 Research Participants .............................. 41

4.3 Research Instruments ..................................... 42

Chapter Five Results and Discussion ...................... 60

5.1 Results ..................................... 60

5.1.1 Results of the metaphorical competence test questionnaire ...... 60

5.1.2 Results of the analysis of lexical fossilization in English writing ..................... 63 

Chapter Five Results and Discussion

5.1 Results

In this part,the results of the pre-test and post-test for metaphor competence andthe three aspects of metaphor recognition,metaphor interpretation and metaphorproduction were collected.In addition,the results of lexical fossilization in threewriting tests,as well as the effects of lexical fossilization of students with differentEnglish proficiency through metaphorical competence cultivation were collected inaction research.

5.1.1 Results of the metaphorical competence test questionnaire

The metaphorical competence pre-test scores and the metaphorical competencepost-test scores of the 95 junior high school students are analyzed by SPSS 22.0 inTable 5.1.

Chapter Six Conclusion

6.1 Major Findings

Based on the results of the action research,the effectiveness of conceptualmetaphor theory in the teaching of English vocabulary in junior high schools has beendemonstrated in this study,where students with all English proficiency improved theirmetaphorical competence and reduced fossilized lexical items in English writing.

First,the teacher applied conceptual metaphor theory in English vocabularyteaching,which improved students’metaphorical competence.Especially,studentswith low English proficiency progressed faster than those with high and mediumEnglish proficiency.Most students made progress in metaphor recognition,whilestudents in the high-level group made greater progress than those in the medium-leveland low-level groups.All the students made progress in both metaphor interpretationand metaphor production,with students in the lower-level group made greaterprogress than those in the medium-level and high-level groups.

Second,lexical fossilization is indeed present in English writing tests for juniorhigh school students.It appears in all parts of speech,according to the analysis oflexical fossilization in English writing.Fossilized lexical items for nouns,verbs andprepositions occur more frequently in all fossilized lexical items.At the same time,itis worth mentioning that the proportion of adjectives,incorrect word spellings andconjunction errors is also high.After two rounds of action research,the different typesof fossilized words decreased(except for pronouns)as the students’metaphorical competence improved.In other words,there is a significant difference between theresults before and after the experiment.

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