The 4th International Conference on Modern Foreign Languages, Linguistics and Literature was held at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK on 1st June 2017. The six papers collected in this special edition of the Journal of Second Language Teaching and Research have been developed from papers first delivered at the event which brought together over thirty presentations in total from presenters in ten countries. Largely focused on giving opportunities to postgraduate research students to acquire valuable experience of conference participation and attendance, the event also included early career researchers, and addressed a wide range of research topics across theoretical and applied linguistics, as well as literary and cultural studies
