The second reason that may help explain the situation of English-language teaching is that Thai teachers of English seem to cope surprisingly well with presumed common problems such as overly large classes, limited and impractical curricula and textbooks, difficulties with language assessment, and limited availability of computers and other instructional aids. They have made do with what they have and rated the problems as moderately serious. In addition, they seem to have been doing well in some particular areas. For example, they disagreed that they had serious problems concerning teaching and constructing the tests of vocabulary, grammar and structure.