Wati, Helda (2018) The Difficulties of Paraphrasing in Academic Writing for the Seventh Semester of English Department at UIN Antasari Banjarmasin Academic Year 2017/2018. Skripsi, Tarbiyah dan Keguruan.

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Helda Wati, 2017. The Difficulties of Paraphrasing in Academic Writing for the Seventh Semester of English Department at UIN Antasari Banjarmasin Academic Year 2017/2018. Thesis. English Education, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teachers Training. Advisors: (1) Dr. H. Husnul Yaqin, M.Ed, (2) Hj. Noor Maulidiyah, MA. Keywords: Academic Writing, Difficulties, Paraphrasing. Writing is an important skill in English language learning. In writing, the students usually feel difficult to write by using their own word, such as in writing paraphrasing. Usually the students make error when they change the grammar, word order, and synonym. Therefore, the researcher is interested to know the students’ difficulties in paraphrasing of the seventh semester students at English Department of UIN Antasari Academic Year 2017/2018. This research is conducted with two research questions. They are: what are the students’ difficulties in paraphrasing at the Seventh Semester of English Department at UIN Antasari Banjarmasin, and why do the students’ face the difficulties in paraphrasing at the Seventh Semester of English Department at UIN Antasari Banjarmasin. The population of the research was 112 students of the seventh semester students of English Department at UIN Antasari with the sample is 25 respondents or 20 % from population. The researcher used descriptive qualitative method in this research. Written test and interview are used as the instruments for collecting the data. After the data gathered, the data are then analyzed descriptive qualitatively. The results of this research indicates that the students’ difficulties in paraphrasing can be concluded into three aspects: The way students change the words (synonym), changed the sentence structure (grammar), and order of ideas (word order). The reasons why the students face the difficulties in paraphrasing are: Lack of vocabulary, less practice, the students did not understand the meaning of the text, the lecturer can not explain clearly, the students did not know how to make a good paraphrase, and the students did not understanding paraphrasing.

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