<p>Drawing on a total of 8,308 haiku poems written by 834 English as Foreign Language (EFL) university students in Japan, this book explores the value, possibility, and potential of teaching and researching English-language haiku in second and foreign language (SFL) contexts.</p><p> </p><p>The book showcases how haiku is used and taught in the SFL classroom and discusses how the task of reading and writing English-language haiku promotes SFL learning. More specifically, it addresses these questions:</p><p>¿ What are the textual features of English-language haiku produced by EFL students?</p><p>¿ How do EFL students read and interpret English-language haiku?</p><p>¿ What knowledge and skills do EFL students gain through the task of reading and writing English-language haiku?</p><p>¿ What are the perceptions and attitudes of EFL students in relation to the task of reading and writing haiku in the English classroom?</p><p>¿ How can English-language haiku be used as a research methodology?