There has been an English fever throughout China for over twenty years. However, there are a lot ofproblems in English Instruction to be solved. English teachers play a very important part in EnglishInstruction, so it is necessary to touch upon English teacher training institutions — English specialty in teacherscolleges. Many English teachers and learners want to know what has happened in the development of Englishspecialty in teachers colleges, what problems have been preventing English specialty from developing in asound and sustainable way. This paper tries to analyze the problems in the development of English specialty inteachers colleges in the hope that more attention will be paid to and solutions to the problems will be found sothat we can work together and make contributions to the development of English specialty in teachers colleges.The chief problems lie in that: impertinent and implicit objective of cultivation, financial difficulties,challenges from international studies universities and schools of foreign languages of comprehensiveuniversities, qualities of teachers of English teaching methodologies, ignorance of teaching skill drills,students' tiredness of study, excessively large class size, shortage of faculties and so on.
