KIMBERLY OBANDO: WHY IS LITERATURE IMPORTANT FOR TEACHERS AND EFL LEARNERS. Literature can be books, images, songs, short stories, etc. They can provide to the teachers reading activities to their class. For example it can cause debates, identify the main idea, improve their reading comprehension. They can even learn something new just by reading. If they read out load they are improving their pronunciation or by using dictation it helps their writing. Students can use their creativity in writing, by their imagination in an essay they are creating literature. We find literature in any language or in the old days by symbols. During those days we find diaries, newspapers, journals filled with all type of information. With the help of that now a days we have ideas of what was it like during those times. Like during the 60s, the wars, big events that happened. It helps to the students with their thesis if they are looking for information.