Institut Agama Islam Negeri Palangka Raya
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EFL teachers' use of plagiarism detection software: A usability study

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EFL  teachers  sometimes  struggle  harder  to  prevent  their  students’  committing plagiarism  because  the  students’  limited  EFL  proficiency  could  be  a  cause  of plagiarism.  To  prevent  plagiarism,  one  of  the  methods  widely  employed  is  the  use  of plagiarism  detection  software  such  as  Plagiarism  Checker  X.  To  assess  how  useful,  easy to  learn,  easy  to  use,  and  satisfying  the  software  was  for  them,  30  EFL  teachers  took anonymously  an  online  30-item  questionnaire  of  7-point  Likert  scale  after  they  had downloaded  and  run  a  free  version  of  the  software.  High  mean  agreement  ratings  across the  four  dimensions  were  revealed  as  28  items  were  highly  positively  perceived  between 6  (agree)  and  7  (strongly  agree)  and  two  items  were  rated  between  5  (slightly  agree)  and 6  (agree).  The  study  showed  that  the  software  was  useful  for  checking  similarities between  texts,  easy  to  learn  and  use  and  could  satisfy  the  teachers.  They  could  arm themselves  with  the  software  to  prevent  plagiarism.  As  one  of  the  first  attempts  to evaluate  the  usability  of  text-matching  software  from  EFL  teachers’  perspective,  this study  has  research  and  educational  implications  as  it  highlights  avenues  for  preventing plagiarism  via  the  software  usability  evaluation.     Keywords:  usability  study;  plagiarism  detection  software;  plagiarism  prevention; teachers  of  English  as  a  foreign  language 

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