The purpose of this research was to found out the difficulties faced by students in reading comprehension of analytical exposition text and explore the strategies used by teachers to solve students’ difficulties in reading comprehension of analytical exposition texts in the 11th grade of Islamic High School Sultan Agung 1 Semarang in the academic year 2023/2024. This research used a qualitative descriptive method. The subjects of this research were 6 students from grade 11 and one English teacher at SMA Islam Sultan Agung 1 Semarang. To collect data, the researcher used interviews. To analyze the data, the researcher used Miles and Huberman's theory, including data reduction, data display, data verification and conclusion drawing. The findings of this research was students' difficulties in reading comprehension of analytical exposition texts due to their have a limited vocabulary, lack of fluency, difficulty level of the text (readability) and difficulties in processing information. Teachers used the Survey, Question, Read, Review (SQ3R) strategy to overcome students' difficulties in reading comprehension.
Keywords: Students' Difficulties, Reading Comprehension, Teacher's Srategies