Abstract

Reading is one of the four language skills taught in the English language learning process besides listening, speaking, and writing. This research aims to know the students’ difficulties in reading comprehension at SMA Negeri 1 Sukodadi and to know the factors of students’ difficulties in reading comprehension at SMA Negeri 1 Sukodadi. This research is descriptive qualitative research. The research was conducted in march 2020. The subject of research was the tenth-grade MIPA 5 of SMA Negeri 1 Sukodadi who were detected that they had difficulties in reading comprehension. The techniques for collecting the data were interviews and documents. the researcher collected the data such as students’ worksheet. The second was data reduction. The researcher classified and reduced the data based on focus. The researcher deleted several data that did not relate to the difficulties in reading comprehension. The third was the data display, the researcher arranged the information to conclude. The researcher presented the data from the difficulties in reading comprehension, and the last is the conclusion. The result of the research showed that some students had difficulties in reading comprehension and they had difficulty in different levels, namely literal comprehension, inferential comprehension, critical comprehension, and creative comprehension. The most difficulties experienced by students were at the level of creative comprehension. The factor of the students’ difficulties in comprehension at tenth grade, there was an inadequate instruction presented by the teacher, lack of pupils’ interest, and the vocabulary difficulties. Keywords: Students’ Difficulties, Reading Comprehension

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  • Language is the most effective tool for communication with others

  • Based on the explanation in the previous chapters, here the writer wants to give some conclusions of the contents of this research, it is hoped that the readers will be able to know much about this research, the conclusion such as below : This research is conducted at the tenth-grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Sukodadi

  • The difficulty of students in Literal Comprehension is that students cannot answer questions about the names of characters in reading and are categorized as Low Level, Difficulty of students

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Introduction

Language is the most effective tool for communication with others. This is why language is very necessary for fluency in communication between language and the people who use it. People use language to express their emotions, feelings, and ideas. There are many languages in the world, one of them is English. English holds the key as an international language. English is an international language, almost everyone from all over the world uses English for their communication. That is why English is a very important language. According to Patel and Jain (2008:31), Language is used to communicate our thoughts and ideas. Language is essential for our survival and development as a human being. Language is a result of cultural experience

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