Abstrak
The problem of this research was unrevealed contributing factors on students’ difficulties in comprehending narrative text. This research was aimed to describe contributing factors on students’ difficulties in comprehending narrative text at SMAN 1 Batusangkar. This research was a qualitative research, using a case study design. The technique used in choosing informants is purposive sampling. The informants of this research was tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Batusangkar registered in 2024/2025 academic year who had difficulty in comprehending narrative text. In this research, the researcher was the key instrument and the interview guide as a supportive instrument. In collecting the data, she interviewed the nine research infomants. To ensure data validity, the researcher used member checking, namely by asking the participants to review the data, information, interpretations, and research report prepared by the researcher after the first interview. To carry out data analysis, the researcher referred to the theory (Miles and Huberman in Sari, 2022), namely data reduction, data display and conclusion drawing and data verification. The researcher conducted interviews based on the interview guide, then analyzed the results of the interviews, and drew conclusions and verified the research findings. The result of this research indicate that there were eight contributing factors on students’ difficulties in comprehending narrative text. The factors difficullties are: 1) Having limited vocabulary 2) Having low reading interest and motivation 3) Having limited familiarity with subject matter 4) Having problem in recalling information 5) Having difficulty in understanding long sentence 6) Having inadeququate instruction from teacher.