英语专业开设日语课的宗旨是为了培养学生用英语表达思想、进行口头交际的能力，然而实际教学中却存在着三大问题。首先，课堂教学时间太少。就笔者所在外文系而言，英语专业低年级学生每周只开设两课时口语课，如此低频率的课时安排必然使众多学生（每班近三十人）无法在课堂 The purpose of setting up a Japanese class for English majors is to cultivate students’ ability to express their thoughts and communicate verbally in English. However, there are three major problems in the actual teaching. First of all, there is too little time in class teaching. For the author’s Department of Foreign Languages, the lower major of English major only has two classes of oral lessons per week. Therefore, the low frequency of class schedule will inevitably make a large number of students (nearly 30 in each class) unable to attend classes