Challenges in Academic Writing: Libyan Undergraduate EFL Students' Summarizing and Paraphrasing of English Source Texts

المؤلفون

  • Widad Mahmoud Yousef Ben Raba'a English Department, Faculty of Education, Misurata University, Misurata, Libya

الكلمات المفتاحية:

Academic Writing challenges، EFL Libyan Students، Paraphrasing، Summary Writing، English source texts

الملخص

The purpose of this study is to examine the primary challenges that EFL students encounter in paraphrasing and summarizing any academic English texts, as well as their perspectives on strategies to overcome these challenges. a quantitative research design was employed, using a questionnaire as the main instrument. The participants consisted of 69 fourth-semester EFL students from the Faculty of Education, Misurata University. The findings revealed that students face several difficulties in paraphrasing and summarization including 1) unknowing how to restructure the sentence in new style, 2) inappropriate use of synonyms, 3) making plagiarism, 4) poor grammatical competence, 5) weak reading comprehension, 6) difficulty understanding unfamiliar terms, and 7) the tendency to translate lengthy texts into Arabic. The study concluded with practical recommendations for both teachers and students to address these challenges.

التنزيلات

منشور

2025-09-01

كيفية الاقتباس

Widad Mahmoud Yousef Ben Raba’a. (2025). Challenges in Academic Writing: Libyan Undergraduate EFL Students’ Summarizing and Paraphrasing of English Source Texts. مجلة شمال إفريقيا للنشر العلمي (NAJSP), 3(3), 334–341. استرجع في من https://najsp.com/index.php/home/article/view/593

إصدار

القسم

محور العلوم الإنسانية والإجتماعية