Abstrak
Teaching English is not easy. Teaching English is not just transferring knowledge to students. Instead, it is to make them able to listen, speak and write fluently. The problem of this research is that English teachers face difficulties in teaching English. This research was aimed to describe the teachers’ difficulties in teaching English at SMAN 1 Batusangkar. This type of research is a qualitative research, using a case study design. The technique used in collecting informants is purposive sampling. The informants in this research were two English teachers who taught eleventh grade at SMAN 1 Batusangkar. The results of this research indicate that there are six difficulties faced by teachers who teach English in the eleventh grade of SMAN 1 Batusangkar. The difficulties are: 1) Having difficulties in teaching English to the students because of their lack of English skills, 2) Having difficulties in motivating students to engage in learning, 3)Having difficulties in handling the class because of students’ behavior, 4) Having lack of knowledge about the independent curriculum, 5) Having lack of students' ability to master vocabulary for interaction and 6) Having lack of utilization of facilities.