AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN MASTERING READING COMPREHENTION AT SMA N 3 SIMEULUE TENGAH

This Research was entitled An Analysis of Students' Difficulties in Mastering Reading Comprehension at SMAN 3 Simeulue Tengah. This research was inspired by the circumstances of SMAN 3 Simeulue Tengah in English class, especially in reading class. The purpose of this study was to investigate the difficulties faced by the students at SMAN 3 Simeulue Tengah in mastering reading comprehension. Knowing the difficulties will help students to deal with their problems. The method used in this study was a Quantitative study involving 30 students as the subject of the research to be investigated. Based on the result and discussion in the previous chapter elaborated by the writer, the researcher concluded some points of conclusion. Firstly, the students actually love learning English. It all happens because of external and internal factors. The external factor is the teachers' competency in teaching English, while the internal factor is the position of the English itself as one of the prestigious lessons. However, the students have low interest in reading English text for some reason, such as difficult pronunciation, uncommon vocabulary, and so on. Moreover, those reasons become their difficulties in learning to read English texts.