ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses that using literature in ELT can be useful to expand language learner's vocabulary, awareness of register, genre and linguistic knowledge generally. It examines the language of literature before considering how using literature might support L2 learning. It also examines approaches to literature reading before clarifying how literature is best selected and used in ELT. Extensive reading is the general heading given to the reading of longer and complete texts, ideally for pleasure and for general understanding rather than to examine every detail, intensive reading, which is more likely to happen in class. Literature use in ELT can clearly be pursued through extensive reading, as advocated by, for example, and, and by researching incidental vocabulary acquisition through extensive reading. The chapter concludes with some more recent developments and likely future directions for uses of literature in ELT.
