TEACHING SUMMARIZING AND PARAPHRASING SKILLS IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM

Abstract

Paraphrasing and summarizing are powerful skills that everyone should develop while learning a foreign language. These two tools are the main clues for integrating the sources into the papers. Paraphrasing and summarizing are very useful as they allow to convey other’s ideas in one’s speech without cluttering up the paragraphs with quotation marks. It is important to be able to summarize and paraphrase correctly to effectively integrate the research into the paper without any plagiarism. By paraphrasing and summarizing the writer shows a full understanding of the topic, identifies the most important information and explains it using his way of outlook. The article tries to highlight the main characteristic features of paraphrasing and summarizing skills, suggests some ways how to develop them and tries to find out the existing differences between them.