مجلة دراسات الإنسان و المجتمع

This research paper is a case study conducted in Zuwarah faculty of Education, Zawia University. It involved twenty Libyan EFL students enrolled in English Department. They were in their 5thsemester. The participants struggled with paraphrasing English texts in spite of attending intensive paraphrasing classes during the semester. These students encounter a difficulty in paraphrasing English texts regarding applying the techniques correctly in addition to lacking diversity when applying paraphrasing techniques. The study aims to investigate the participants’ strengths, their weaknesses and the reasons caused the difficulties they encounter in paraphrasing in order to determine their general ability to paraphrase English texts and to prepare a relevant and effective teaching plan to overcome their weaknesses and difficulties. This study implemented quantitative instruments for data collection. They included a paraphrasing written test and a student’s questionnaire distributed directly after the test. Results obtained from data collected indicated that despite students implemented successfully a number of paraphrasing techniques, there is still a need to provide pedagogical and psychological support to students especially those with low achievement and who struggle in applying a number of techniques. ........................ Key words: ............Paraphrasing Techniques, Paraphrasing difficulties, Teaching paraphrasing, Paraphrasing ability