Keywords : Problems, Reading Comprehension

Reading is one of four skills that is learned school. Reading is a process of how we
find information from what we see. Like the other skills, reading comprehension is not
easy. Students often face many problems in reading comprehension because of their
limited ability and vocabulary in understanding readings materials. The researcher
interested in students problems in reading comprehension of eleventh grade of SMA
Negeri 6 Banjarmasin in Academic year 2017/2018. The objective of study is to describe
the problems faced by the students of eleventh grade of SMA Negeri 6 Banjarmasin in
reading comprehension.
The researcher used descriptive quantitative research as the type of research. The
population of the research was 253 and the sample was 71 students. The technique
sampling is cluster random sampling. The instruments used were test-retest and
questionnaire.
Based on the research result, the students had two problems. There are finding
main idea and guessing meaning from context. The mayor problem is guessing meaning
form context and the minor problem is finding the main idea. From questionnaire,
students had a problem in finding main idea and guessing meaning from context.
Finally, it is suggested that for English teacher to improve reading skills and
improve students vocabulary, word meaning, and knowledge about main idea in reading
by providing more exercises in reading comprehension and active to find the meaning of
the word that they found. The students should read English text not only in school but
also read in outside school.