Students’ Difficulties in Paraphrasing English Text

This study explored the students’ difficulties in paraphrasing English text in their writing and how they deal with their difficulties when writing academically. Mixed methods were used in this study to answer the research questions. The instruments of this study was paraphrasing test, questionnaires, and interview. 30 students participated in this study. The study showed that most of students have difficulties in paraphrasing English text because of culture and other difficulties such as difficult to change structures of ideas, change words, change word order, change sentence structures, lack of vocabulary, and lack of knowledge of paraphrasing. The solutions are practicing more, looking for additional sources about paraphrasing, asking someone who master in paraphrasing skill, sharing with friend, do not looking the original text. In conclusion, English students have variety difficulties in paraphrasing English text and they know the solutions on how to deal with their own difficulties.