Elliyin Marqomah.2017. The Analysis of Students’ Difficulties in Finding the Main Idea of English Texts at MAN 2 Tapin. Antasari State Islamic University Banjarmasin, for the degree of Sarjana in English Language Education. Advisors: (1) Dr. H. Husnul Yaqin M.Ed, (2) Hj. Noor Maulidiyah MA

Keywords: students’ difficulties, main idea, English text

This research aims to analyse of students’ difficulties in finding the main idea of English texts at MAN 2 Tapin. The problem formulation of this research are 1. How is the students’ ability in finding main idea of English texts? 2. What are students’ difficulties in finding main idea of English texts?
This research used descriptive qualitative method. There are three data collection procedure: observation, test, and interview. There are three data analysis procedure: identification of data, description, and conclusion.
The result shows that the first statement is students ability in this problem is “fair” category, it can be seen from score test and teacher interviewed. The result show that the second statement is the students’ difficulties in finding main idea are: 1. Lack of students’ interest, 2. Lack of vocabularry knowledge, 3. Lenght of the sentence, 4. Poor reading strategy, and 5. Understanding meaning. from ten students interviewed, four students said lack of students’ interest, all students said the lack of vocabulary knowledge, six students said lenght of the sentence, six students said Poor reading strategy , and ten students said cannot Understand meaning. it can be seen from the result of students test and interview.