From the Editor

/ Christine CHOU

About Vol 20 and Acknowledgement

/ Tsui-O HUANG and Ming-I TSENG

Sanzang’s Encounters with Women: How the Monk on his Way to India Changes in his Relationships with Female Characters

/ Nicholas Koss

"As the Transmitted Idea": Contagion, Dancing Mania, Congenital Infection, and Marriage in Thomas Hardy

/ Han-Ying Liu

Keywords： Hardy, contagion, marriage, prostitution, venereal disease

Saint Roch, the Anti-Plague Saint According to Tintoretto: An Alter Christus

/ Paolo Costa

Keywords： Saint Roch, Tintoretto, Venice, Scuola Grande

Consecutive Interpreting Class on International Affairs during the Pandemic: A Discussion of Theme-based Instruction and Communicative Language Teaching from Onsite to Online

/ Eileen Hung-Hsiu Lin

Keywords： Covid-19 pandemic, migrant workers, theme-based instruction (TI), communicative language teaching (CLT), interpreting rating scales

A Study of Teaching Level-1 Japanese as a Second Foreign Language

/ Tzu-Ching Chen

Keywords： Second Foreign Language Curriculum, Level-1, CEFR, Can-do, Japanese teaching in senior high school

A Pragmatic Analysis of Thanking in the L2 Spanish Classroom

/ Tzu-Yu Liu

Keywords： expressions of gratitude, pragmatic competence, L2 Spanish, pragmatic dimension, communicative context