Abstract
This paper studies a feasible linkage of education of foreign languages other than English between secondary and post-secondary schools in the current public educational system in Japan. The term linkage of education of foreign languages refers to the articulation of the instructional goals and contents from lower school level to higher school level of foreign language educaiton. This paper examines several conditions required for creating an effective linkage, and suggests that the current system of teaching foreign languages in public education is posing an obstacle for establishing the linkage and achieving the ideal state of foreign language education.
