Learning a foreign language presupposes a willingness to open up to the world, to start a lifelong dialogue with cultures from other countries. In English language teacher training courses, we discuss the most effective methodologies to promote English language learning, always seeking an objectivity that often distances the areas of applied linguistics, on the one hand, and literary studies, on the other, creating, as a result, a false dichotomy between language and literature. Literature has an enormous potential to awaken the imagination, generate identification, instigate deep and necessary discussions, as...