The purposes of this research were: 1) to investigate the current state in teaching English vocabulary and English reading comprehension of ninth grade students; and 2) to investigate the problems in teaching English vocabulary and reading comprehension of ninth grade students. The target group consisted of 15 English teachers who teach ninth grade students, are at least senior professional level teachers and/or at least ten years of experience teaching English as a foreign language, selected through the purposive sampling. The research instrument was the semi-structured interview form. Data were analyzed by using content analysis and presented descriptively. The results revealed that: 1) the current state of all teachers uses three stages, including presentation, practice, and production; as for the stage in teaching English reading comprehension, it has three stages, including pre-reading, while-reading, and post-reading; and 2) the problems in teaching English vocabulary of ninth grade students are word meaning, word use and word pronunciation; as for the problems in teaching English reading comprehension of ninth grade students, they have the problems with vocabulary knowledge, content knowledge, reading strategy and reading motivation.