This article explores the difficulties of the students in reading English texts in learning at the Covid-19 Pandemic Era and the efforts done by the English teachers. The research has been done by using a qualitative approach by using reading tests and interviews as the instruments of research. The data that have been obtained were analyzed by reading, grouping, coding, and interpreting. Based on the result, it was found that the students have difficulties in determining idea, understanding vocabulary, finding detail information, and making inferences. There are some teacher's efforts to solve of students' difficulties in reading comprehension. They are: explaining more detail, giving new vocabulary, and not allowing the students to speak Arabic language when studying English. The dominant factor that made students difficult in reading English text is that they usually speak Arabic language in classroom. Based on the findings it can be stated that the students had difficulties in understanding English texts, even though they studied English in the pandemic era. However, the teachers had tried to minimize the difficulties by giving more explanation and example to get the information from the text. It is suggested that the teachers in boarding school must give more interesting model to teach the students reading, and also giving the students authentic reading materials to make them being easier to get the ideas from the text.

Students made errors in writing narrative text. Two reasons why students made errors because less in grammar mastery and confuses to differenciate of the verb. This writing is to find out the grammatical errors. The method of research is descriptive quantitative. Process of data are analyzed by reading students’ writing firstly, identification, classification, tabulating, describing, and taking conclusion about the errors. After analyzing the data, it found that students made errors in omission, addition, misformation, and misordering categories. The highest frequency of item error  was in using verb tense with total of 61 errors. Meanwhile, the lowest frequency of item errors were in using adverb and adjective with total of 6 errors. Total of the errors was 204.

Maka berbahagialah mereka yang masih tetap teguh dalam budaya hidup ajaran agama Islam karena mereka akan mendapat janji Alloh yaitu tempat peristirahatan yang indah yaitu jannah yang mengalir sungai-sungai dibawahnya dengan segala kenikmatan yang disediakan oleh Alloh SWT di dalamnya. Semoga kita termasuk dalam golongan ini. Amin Ya Robbal Alamin. Namun beri kabar gembira jugalah bagi orang-orang yang telah jauh meninggalkan ajaran Islam dalam semua budaya hidupnya dengan azab yang penuh siksaan sebagai janji hukuman dari Alloh SWT yaitu jahannam tempat peristirahatan yang paling buruk. (Then blessed are those who still remain steadfast in the living culture of the techniques of islamic religion because they will get the promise of Alloh, that is a beatiful rasting place, that is, jannah which flows rivers under it with all the pleasures provided by Alloh SWT in it. Hopefully we belong to this group, amen, Robbal Alamin.). But give good all news also for people who have far abandoned the teaching of Islam in all culturas of their lives with a punishment as a promise of punisment from Alloh SWT namely jahannam the worst resting place.

Peneliti mengeksplorasi kemampuan siswa dalam membedakan kalimat majemuk dan kompleks. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menguji kemampuan siswa dalam membedakan senyawa dan kalimat kompleks pada kelas XI SMA Negeri 1 Angkola Selatan. Setelah menganalisis data, peneliti menemukan bahwa kemampuan siswa dalam membedakan kalimat majemuk dan kompleks pada kelas XI SMA Negeri 1 Angkola Selatan dapat dikategorikan cukup, dengan skor rata-rata 51,33 untuk kemampuan dalam kalimat majemuk dan 59,2 untuk kemampuan dalam kompleks. kalimat. Kemudian, berdasarkan data yang terkumpul, data telah dianalisis untuk membuktikan hipotesis dengan menggunakan rumus Z-Test. Hal ini dapat dilihat Z_ (hitung =)-0,087