3. Responden : “Kesulitannya adalah tidak mudahnya melakukan parafrase dengan menyusun kata karena kurangnya kosa kata.” 23. Responden : “Baiklah, masalah saya dalam parafrase adalah kosakata, tata bahasa, tenses.”
How the Students’ Overcome Their Difficulties in Using Paraphrase to Complete a Skripsi
Researcher: “So, from the previous explanation, how do you overcome it. your difficulties in paraphrasing.
Discussion
Students’ Difficulties in Using Paraphrase to Complete a Skripsi
From the above explanation, the result of the interview showed that each student had his own way to overcome any difficulty in making paraphrasing in this case "Using Application". At the same time, too many new words and easy words can spoil the true meaning and depth of the sentence. In the process of learning the mother tongue or a foreign language, the most important component is the vocabulary.2 The vocabulary consists of 2 types, specifically active and passive.
Learning vocabulary has always been a skill that is taught and evaluated in other language skills such as reading, writing, listening and speaking because vocabulary knowledge usually indicates student progress.3. Another crucial problem that caused more than half of the respondents, Kaharuddin points out that there are 3 possible ways to produce a paraphrase, namely: (1) to replace one or more words in the second sentence with the most relevant synonyms of the words, for example "They like to read books on linguistics". Well, as I've explained before, maybe as good steps for paraphrasing.” The fourth respondent stated that “I know what paraphrasing is, but I don't know the steps for quoting someone's opinion.
So where in the paraphrase I am less clear and grammatical than I have a mess.” The last respondent as a representative stated that "The difficulty is because I have absolutely no idea about paraphrasing, so I have almost all paraphrasing difficulties, but I try to do my best." Specifically, Bailey suggested using synonyms (e.g., studies instead of research), changing word class (e.g., in mountains for mountainous regions), changing word order (e.g. ., the collapse of Egyptian society began for the collapse of ancient Egypt), or a combination of all the above-mentioned techniques12 Furthermore, Rogers recommended changing sentence structures (eg, from active to passive speech, to direct speech to indirect speech), or the use of other structures appropriately and correctly during paraphrasing. 13. So from there, sometimes I get confused especially if I find the long sentence and the irregular sentence.” The last respondent said that “Maybe more in the way of ordering each word and each sentence.
The other factors are difficulties in building ideas, interpreting a reading, the sentences in a paragraph are too long and the use of language is high, sometimes the students who are lazy due to lack of interest in learning, have doubts about doing paraphrasing , because for fear of being wrong, the translation process takes a long time, the education director's requirement to carry out paraphrases and the lectures'. 22Pradeep Kumar Debata, "The Importance of Grammar in English Language Teaching: a Reassessment,"https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279949868_The_Importance_of_Grammar_i n_English_Language_Teaching_A_Reassessment on January 2, 2011, (January 1) Of these four factors. were the most dominant factors that students experienced when doing parawriting, other factors such as students' difficulties in building ideas, interpreting a reading, the sentences in a paragraph are too long and the language used is loud, lack of practice in paraphrasing, sometimes the students who are lazy due to lack of interest in learning, who are hesitant to do paraphrase due to fear of being wrong, the translation process takes a long time, the supervisor's requirement to do paraphrasing and the explanations of the lectures that are less interesting and less understood.
These factors are mainly due to the lack of lecturers' explanation and lack of students' practices which are the dominant factors in this difficulty. The result of the second and the third factors was the same as the research done by Wahyuni Kharunnisa with the title Students' Problems in Paraphrasing. In this study it was shown that the lack of vocabulary in this case was a synonym and understanding about paraphrasing which involved the criteria of a good paraphrasing and the correct procedure in paraphrasing as the causes of the students' problems with paraphrasing.24 This was the same with this research many students lacked vocabulary and they have no idea about the pattern of the paraphrase.
Most of the students made mistakes when they tried to change the grammar or structure of the text. 25Helda Wati, "The problems of paraphrasing in academic writing for the seventh semester of the English department," (Banjarmasin: UIN Antasari Banjarmasin, 2017).
How the Students’ Overcome Their Difficulties in Using Paraphrase to Complete a Skripsi
The second way to overcome the students' difficulties in using paraphrase to complete an Essay is to find the synonym. The application of this way to overcome the students' difficulties in using paraphrase to complete the thesis can be seen in the students' statements as follows; the first student said that “first I analyze the words I will quote then I look for the similar vocabulary for example further is changed to then. After that, look for the conjunctions such as changing the active sentence to the passive sentence or vice versa. The second is "I try to stay focused and always prepare a dictionary." And third student is "From the vocabulary, I overcome it by looking directly at the dictionary and looking for synonyms.".
Stuart Webb, in his research titled "The Synonym Effect in Second Language Vocabulary Learning". The results of the study showed that students had significantly higher scores for words that had known synonyms for productive knowledge. The result shows that the burden of learning synonyms of familiar words is less than that of non-synonyms, because synonyms represent acquired knowledge of syntagmatic connection.29 In other words, students have no burden in learning vocabulary for synonyms they have words. has been known.
It will make students think twice if they learn the synonyms of the words that they have not known before. The second way to overcome students' difficulties in using paraphrases to complete a Skripsi is to ask other friends for clarification. The first respondent said that "As for the meaning itself, I ask my close friends and ask for help to read the proposal and the journal where I quote, and then ask if what I paraphrase already has the same meaning." This was stated by the second respondent.
The way I overcome this is by consulting my friends who are experts.” The last respondent stated: “I overcome the difficulties by asking my friends.” The third way to overcome students' difficulties in using paraphrase to complete a Skripsi is to use an application or a website on the Internet. There is a website that can help students paraphrase, namely "Paraphrase Online and Smodin.me", even though the application or website does not paraphrase as a whole, but only changes some vocabulary and synonyms, but with this website it can help students help plagiarism in the Skripsi.
It can be seen from the students' statements, the first is "I mostly overcome it using the help of Google links as I said before." The second is "to find a solution, sometimes I use the help of Google because there is an application that can make it easier for us to paraphrase." And the third is "Now, we can find a way to do online paraphrasing. 33Pizzini and Shepardson, “Student Questioning in the Presence of the Teacher During Problem Solving in Science," https://www.sciencedirect.com/ science/article/pii/S, accessed January 15, 2021).There are some students who use internet paraphrasing website or application to help in academic activities and this is a solution chosen by students to overcome their difficulties in paraphrasing.
