When compared the study results to the findings reported by Noopong (2002), the perceptions of both groups of teacher-respondents were similar and different in many ways. For example, Nopong’s study similarly revealed that most of the problems concerning teachers, curricula and textbooks, and student assessment were at a moderate level, while most of those concerning students were at a high level. However, while the current study found that other factors contributing to successful teaching such as lack of English native speakers, inadequate budget for teaching materials, insufficient financial support for teachers’ PD and students’ extra-curricular activities, and inaccessibility for language resources were seen as moderately serious problems, Noopong reported them as the most serious problems for language teaching. The findings of the current study may attribute to two main questions to be discussed: