THE DIFFICULTIES OF READING NARRATIVE TEXT ONLINE FOR NINTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMP MUHAMMADIYAH 01 JEMBER IN 2020/2021 ACADEMIC YEAR

Reading is very important for students to get knowledge and information. In reading, students can read various type of the text including narrative text which is must be learned in curriculum. Moreover, in today online reading must be applied for students to learning but it’s difficult because need media and good internet. Therefore, it’s important to do a research entitled “The Difficulties of Reading Narrative Text Online for Ninth Grade Students at SMP Muhammadiyah 01 Jember in 2020/2021 Academic Year”

This research aims at finding out the difficulties of reading narrative text online for ninth grade students at SMP Muhammadiyah 01 Jember in 2020/2021 Academic Year .

The researcher used descriptive qualitative research and conducted data from interview and documentation. In this research, researcher interviewed 15 students about difficulties in reading narrative text and strategies to overcome these difficulties. Then, the researcher also gave open questionnaire to English teacher and took documents form material of narrative text to competed data.

Based on the research result, there some difficulties in reading narrative text online faced by ninth grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah 01 Jember in 2020/2021, they were tired eyes easily, difficulties to concentration in reading a text, and difficulties to underline important words, difficult to understand narrative text because had a lot of vocabularies, uses past tense, and difficult to find moral value. Therefore, the strategies of students to overcome the difficulties to form discussion group to concentrate in reading and to do scanning