About English classes at Junior high and high schools in Japan
Most of students study English for their exams such as term exams of schools and entrance exams for high schools and universities. These exams do not have speaking test but writing, reading, and listening tests. Therefore, they usually do not speak English at their schools.
About English classes at university
English major--- Students learn basic skills to write, read, speak, and listen to English. (In addition to them, they study foreign culture, history, communication, and so on. However, I'd like to focus on only basic skills for this theses.) Japanese students learn these basic skills in separeted calsses, which means they learn how to write English in writing class, read it in reading class, speak it in speaking class, and listen to it in listening class.
Non English major--- Some of them have only writing and reading class. Most of them do not have speaking class. (*get more information)
