Students’ Barriers In Understanding Reading Comprehension Materials from Textbook: Stories for You Aided with Vocabulary.

Reading comprehension is considered as one of the challenging language skills which the one are caused by the textbook. The aim of this study was to find out students’ barriers in the use of Stories for You Aided with Vocabulary textbook in reading comprehension class. It was conducted using mixed methods by applying the questionnaire and the interview as the instruments. There are forty participants from the second grade of junior high school of Oemar Diyan Islamic Boarding School were selected to complete the aims of this study. The result showed that there were five major barriers faced by the students in understanding reading comprehension materials from the using of the textbook, including difficulty in finding main idea, difficulty in understanding the meaning of the word, difficulty in understanding a long text, difficulty in recognizing vocabulary and difficulty in evaluating the weakness of the materials provided in the textbook. However, all the other statements provided in the questionnaire, including grammatical confusion, the structure of the sentences, translating the words, the materials are useless and unmotivated, difficult to understand the material, kind of genres found in the reading materials, and the textbook does not organize the reading materials in order of increasing difficulty, were all considered problematic since it was proven by the results of the data analysis that showed that the 302 values indicated strongly agree and agree and only a few chose to disagree and strongly disagree.