“…Moreover, they are expected to have the ability to avoid plagiarism and master the techniques to generate refined paraphrasing texts, academic language teachers are obliged to understand what tools the students should own for the sake of paraphrasing tasks (Mafiza & Wiyanah, 2022;Scroggs, 2015). Teachers should not merely ask students not to do plagiarism, more than that, it needs to take into consideration how deep our students' understanding of paraphrasing and their motivation for it (Hirvela & Du, 2013;Schwabl et al, 2013;Subekti, 2022;Sukowati et al, 2020), the students' level of reading and writing during engaging in a communication (Seran & Irawan, 2021;Endahati & Widagsa, 2018;Wahyuni et al, 2020;Zhao & Hirvela, 2015), and how well students utilizing the critical thinking to solve problems (Islamiyah & Al Fajri, 2020;Wijaya, 2022). Are the students possess sufficient abilities in synthesizing and structuring ideas?…”