title: AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ READING DIFFICULTIES; A STUDY AT THE FIRST GRADE OF SMKN 1 SIMPANG PEMATANG, MESUJI creator: Anggun Khoirun Nisak, 1713042035 subject: 370 Pendidikan subject: 420 Bahasa Inggris dan Inggris kuno (Anglo-Saxon) description: ABSTRACT AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ READING DIFFICULTIES; A STUDY AT THE FIRST GRADE OF SMKN 1 SIMPANG PEMATANG, MESUJI By Anggun Khoirun Nisak This research aims to find out the difficulties that are faced by the students in comprehending English reading text and to know the factors of contributing to the students’ difficulties in comprehending English reading text. Furthermore, this research used a descriptive qualitative study. In collecting the da ta, the researcher used an interview that are based on the reading test . The result of this study showed that there are difficulties faced by students in the reading comprehension. Based on the result, understanding vocabulary was the highest difficulties faced by students with 89 mistakes (23,1%) and detail information as the least difficult reading aspect with 59 mistakes (15,3%). In addition, based on the students' interview result, the most dominant factor contributes to the students’ difficulties in comprehending English reading text is students’ background knowledge while the least dominant is sentence problem. In this case, by knowing the students’ difficulties in comprehending English reading text, the English teacher could learn better and be more creative in applying the techniques of teaching reading skill. It is used to solve the students difficulties i n comprehending the reading text. Keywords: Comprehending, Reading Text, Reading Difficulties publisher: FAKULTAS KEGURUAN DAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN date: 2021 type: Skripsi type: NonPeerReviewed format: text identifier: http://digilib.unila.ac.id/61089/1/ABSTRAK%20-%20ANGGUN.pdf format: text identifier: http://digilib.unila.ac.id/61089/2/SKRIPSI%20FULL%20-%20ANGGUN.pdf format: text identifier: http://digilib.unila.ac.id/61089/3/SKRIPSI%20TANPA%20ANGGUN.pdf identifier: Anggun Khoirun Nisak, 1713042035 (2021) AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ READING DIFFICULTIES; A STUDY AT THE FIRST GRADE OF SMKN 1 SIMPANG PEMATANG, MESUJI. FAKULTAS KEGURUAN DAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN, UNIVERSITAS LAMPUNG. relation: http://digilib.unila.ac.id/61089/