%A 1713042035 Anggun Khoirun Nisak
%T AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS? READING DIFFICULTIES; 
A STUDY AT THE FIRST GRADE OF
SMKN 1 SIMPANG PEMATANG, MESUJI
%X 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
%C UNIVERSITAS LAMPUNG
%D 2021
%I FAKULTAS KEGURUAN DAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN
%L eprints61089