According to the responding teachers’ perceptions, students experience greater difficulties from vocabulary (Mean=3.52), variety of structures (Mean=3.49) and finding form-function matches (Mean=3.43) than from handling from presented within authentic texts (Mean=3.33) and culture (Mean=3.26). Statements 11 and 12 relating to teachers’ difficulties in using authentic texts produced a mean score of 3.03 and 3.09 respectively (Table 2 - ANNEXURE – II), which indicates a lower perception of teachers of their own difficulties than those of students