Thirty-six problem areas relating to college foreign language instruction are identified in this paper. Most of these problems can be grouped in five major categories--(1) high school preparation and college entrance requirements and placement procedures, (2) faculty training, qualifications, and interests, (3) research needs and the lag between the development of theory and its practical application, (4) poor coordination of classroom, language laboratory, and teaching materials as well as insufficient integration of cultural concepts, and (5) unrealistic objectives pertaining to student attitudes, undergraduate and graduate school requirements, priority disagreements, program articulation, and concomitant growth of student bodies and faculty. Also mentioned are changes needed in innovative and evaluative practices, the deterioration in college of language skills acquired in high school, and the problems involved with age and language learning. (AF)