★突如其来的新冠肺炎疫情给外语教育与研究带来了一系列的影响和挑战。一些新的研究方向在外国语言学及应用语言学领域应运而生，“由点及面”的探讨不断出现且日渐深入，例如疫情防控中的应急语言服务、混合式外语教学模型、疫情期间外语学习者的焦虑研究、（后）疫情时期的话语研究等。甚至不少国内外核心期刊为此出了特刊，专门针对这些前沿话题提供了深入探讨的平台。因此，本期就为大家推荐一些近期国内外核心期刊上关于疫情背景下外语教学与研究的优秀论文。
Illness cannot be just illness, for the simple reason that human culture is constituted in language […] and that health and illness, being things which fundamentally concern humans, and hence need to be ‘explained’, enter into language and are constituted in language, regardless of whether or not they have some independent reality in nature.
—— Nicholas Fox (1993, p.6)
徐锦芬、李高新、刘文波. “线上线下融合情境下大学外语教师能力框架构建”，刊载于《外语界》2021年第4期，第11-18页。
摘要：信息技术的进步为高校外语教育带来新的发展机遇，线上线下融合教学的新生态对大学外语教师提出新的能力要求。本文梳理教师能力概念和国内外相关研究文献，结合教师能力发展的情境性和动态性，尝试构建线上线下融合情境下大学外语教师能力框架。该框架涵盖意识、知识和技能三个能力构成要素，呈现探索、整合和创新三个发展阶段，为信息化时代大学外语教师专业发展提供参考，推动信息技术与外语教学深度融合。高霄、李正栓、王密卿.“疫情防控背景下高校在线外语教学形态调查研究”，刊载于《外语电化教学》2021年第3期，第21-25页。
摘要：本研究基于大规模问卷调查深入探究高校学生和外语教师对在线外语教学形态的认知评价、教学形态表征形式及其认知评价对后疫情时代外语教学形态重构的启示。研究结果表明,师生的认知与评价集中体现在积极、干扰、功能、效能与传统心理等五个维度;在线外语教学形态主要表征为自由性、技术性与互动性等三种形式;后疫情时代高等外语教育教学实践和形态发生着质的变化。李莹莹、周季鸣.“线上英语教学环境下学习者自我调控能力研究”，刊载于《外语与外语教学》2020年第5期，第49-58页。
摘要：学生自我调控能力是影响线上教学效果的关键因素之一。本研究基于Zimmerman(2000)的自我调控学习(Self-regulated learning)理论,探究线上教学环境下英语专业大学生自我调控能力运用过程。研究采用混合研究方法,基于对56名学生问卷调查分析的结果,通过个人访谈、学生学习计划、反思日志追踪三名个案学生的线上学习过程。研究显示,学生在目标设定、环境构建、策略选择、时间管理、寻求帮助和自我评价方面展现出不同的调控能力。自我调控能力的个体差异受学习者内在因素和社会因素的共同影响。研究发现为线上教学环境下培养学生自我调控能力提供教学启示。McGlashan, M. (2021). Networked discourses of bereavement in online COVID-19 memorials. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 26(4), 557–582.
摘要：This paper reports on study of online COVID-19 memorials posted during 2020 to the Church of England website https://www.rememberme2020.uk/. The paper employs a Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) approach to analyse networks of co-occurring linguistic items (types and lemmata) and patterns (ngrams) within online memorials, and examines how these frequent items/patterns exist within networked discourses that underpin an overarching bereavement discourse. The analysis finds that bereavement discourse is underpinned by frequent reference to love, relationships and relational identification, time and temporality, loss/absence, and memory, as well as metaphors based on CONTAINER and JOURNEY image schema. An analysis of these metaphorical representations of death and bereavement suggest that online memorials serve as a space for the social practice of bereavement and shows how the language used to grieve attempts to ideologically (re)present the relationships between the bereaved and decedent. All code used in this paper can be found at https://osf.io/khcj2/.MacIntyre, P. D., Gregersen, T. & Mercer, S. (2020). Language teachers’ coping strategies during the Covid-19 conversion to online teaching: Correlations with stress, wellbeing and negative emotions. System, 94.
摘要：Teaching often is listed as one of the most stressful professions and being a language teacher triggers its own unique challenges. Responses to the Covid-19 pandemic have created a long list of new stressors for teachers to deal with, including problems caused by the emergency conversion to online language teaching. This article examines the stress and coping responses of an international sample of over 600 language teachers who responded to an online survey in April 2020. The survey measured stressors and 14 coping strategies grouped into two types, approach and avoidant. Substantial levels of stress were reported by teachers. Correlations show that positive psychological outcomes (wellbeing, health, happiness, resilience, and growth during trauma) correlated positively with approach coping and negatively with avoidant coping. Avoidant coping, however, consistently correlated (rs between 0.42 and 0.54) only with the negative outcomes (stress, anxiety, anger, sadness, and loneliness). In addition, ANOVA showed that although approach coping was consistently used across stress groups, avoidant coping increased as stress increased suggesting that there may be a cost to using avoidant coping strategies. Stepwise regression analyses using the 14 specific coping strategies showed a complex pattern of coping. Suggestions for avoiding avoidance coping strategies are offered.[1]Curry, N. & Pérez-Paredes, P. (2021). Stance nouns in COVID-19 related blog posts: A contrastive analysis of blog posts published in The Conversation in Spain and the UK. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 26(4), 469–497.[2] Moser, Kelly M., Wei, Tianlan & Brenner, D. (2021). Remote teaching during COVID-19: Implications from a national survey of language educators. System, 97.[3] Tian, W., Louw, S. & Khan, M. K. (2021). Covid-19 as a critical incident: Reflection on language assessment literacy and the need for radical changes. System, 103.Fox, N. (1993). Postmodernism, Sociology and Health. Maidenhead, the UK: Open University Press
