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Trying to track down information on the pushback against humanities in Japanese universities, I found one article on the Yomiuri Shinbun site talking about arguments that it's more important to teach tips for getting a high score on standardized English tests than to teach English literature.

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Maybe worry about basic communicative competency in English before worrying about either of those?

And probably, all else being equal, the person who studies English literature will get more English communication skills and more cultural competency than the person who just studies for the standardized test?

You don't have to go into any arguments about being a more holistically well-rounded human being; as a foreign language learning method, reading is just better than most of the drill stuff and nitpicky grammar stuff on standardized tests.