Benton and Brumfit C., eds., 1993) where various institutions in different countries present proposals for the use of the English language and literature through the reading of extracts, short stories and short novels . Countries such as Sweden, Germany, Denmark and Italy offer programs implemented in secondary education, while Spain contributes with two articles focusing on the teaching of literature in universities (Onega, 1993 and Alcaraz, 1983). It seems to indicate that in our country the systematic development of the exploitation of literary texts in English teaching programs has been reduced to the tertiary level, where English literature is offered to specialized students, who generally have had little contact with it.