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Han, Sang-taek. “The enhancement of the interpretation of English idiomatic expressions and the words retainment by metaphoric cognition and analysis.” Studies on English Language & Literature. 35.4(2009): 215-242. This paper is to diagnose the possibilities of interpretation ability build-up by recognizing and analyzing the idiomatic expressions on the metaphoric expression basis. This study was based upon the cognitive linguistics where it is argued that every day idiomatic expressions were mostly originated from metaphoric expressions made of conceptual structure which came from human’s universal ways of thinking. To do this research, The CNN News scripts, which are a written form for oral communication, were administered as experimental materials. This study found that the experimental group which took the idiomatic expressions interpretation activities by the metaphoric cognition and analysis was better than the controlled group followed by conventional approach of literal interpretation activities with no special metaphoric cognition. Plus the words retainment ability of the experimental group was better than the controlled group. (Kongju University)