THE STUDENT’S DIFFICULTIES IN READING COMPREHENSION AT SECOND GRADE AT ISLAMIC SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL LABORATORIUM JAMBI

This research focuses on the difficulties faced by the senior high school Laboratorium Jambi in reading comprehension. The purpose of the research was to find out the difficulties faced by the student’s in second grade senior high school Laboratorium Jambi. The method research was descriptive qualitative research. The data collected through documentation observation as the instrument data collection methods used the technique of total sampling. The result of the documntation showed that the majority of this research, found difficulties including answering main idea, making inference, and locating reference questions. The most difficult aspect that encountered by the students at second grade of senior high school Laboratorium Jambi was finding main idea questions, because the located main idea was difficult to find. In addition, based on the students’ responses in aanswering teachers’ question, they mostly got difficulties in understanding vocabulary, poor mastery of grammar, the difficulty in understanding long sentences, lack of media learning, less support from the family, lack of knowledge of strategies in reading comprehension. Then, the researchers observed the condition of students at a time when language learning English especially reading to know what kind of difficulties students in reading comprehension of English text. As a result, the vocabulary is the dominant factor for a student which is the reading comprehension of students in difficulty. Then researcher observing students activity learning in classroo