Abstract name : rizka puji lestari s student no. : 1106102020005 study program : english education title : an analysis of students’ difficulties in reading comprehension (a study at sman 4 banda aceh) key word : reading, reading comprehension, students’ difficulties the objective of this study was to analyze students’ difficulties in reading comprehension faced by thirty second graders at sman 4 banda aceh. this research used mix-method approach and the data were collected through test and interview. this research focused on five aspects in reading comprehension namely main idea, detail information, inference, reference, and vocabulary. the result of this study shows that the major difficulty students face in reading comprehension is vocabulary (27%), followed by main idea (23%), inference and reference (18%), and detail information (14%). meanwhile, the factors of reading comprehension difficulties are the absence of extensive reading, inadequate