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ABSTRACT Rahmawati. 2313.025. Problems in Reading Comprehension at the Third Semester Students of English Department in IAIN Bukittinggi Academic Year 2017/2018. Thesis. IAIN Bukittinggi. The research was done because the researcher found several problems in reading comprehension at the third semester students of English Department in IAIN Bukittinggi. This research was conducted because of the students did not know the meanings of unfamiliar words in the text, they were difficultto identify main idea of the text when they read, and they tended do other activities during the reading class. The purpose of this research was toknow what the types of the students’ problem in reading comprehension were. The design of this research was descriptive quantitative research. The participants of the research were the third semester students of IAIN Bukittinggi in academic year 2017/2018 and the English lecturer who taughtin the third semester.There were four classes of the third semester with the total of students was one hundred twenty two (122) students.The sample of this research was determined by using cluster random sampling.The researcher took the sample about 25% from the population of each class, so there were 30 students as the sample in this research. The instrumentation in this research was questionnaire that had been given to the English lecturer and the students. In this research, the researcher used type of Likert Scale questionnaire, which was indicated that always, often, sometimes, seldom, never. In analyzing the data, the researcherused the percentage formula proposed by Sudijono. The research findings showed that the types of the students’ problem in reading comprehension were included reading text, time in reading activity, reading strategies, motivation to read, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, inference making, understanding text structure, phonics, word reading (decoding), phonology, sound-symbol correspondence, syntax, higher-order thinking and word recognition. From the sixteen problems above, the students often faced problems on word recognition (60%), time in reading activity (56.66%), vocabulary (56.66%) and motivation to read (53.33%).