Exploring cohesion in students' essay writing production : the case of third year English foreign language students at mohamed lamine debaghine Setif 2 university, Algeria

الملخص EN

The current study investigates cohesion in students' essay writing.

It aims at finding out students' awareness about the use of cohesion devices in essay writing production.

The study mainly used quantitative and qualitative methods through a questionnaire with 50 third year English foreign language students at Setif 2 university.

The results revealed that students are aware of the use of cohesion in EFL essay writing.

Moreover, they encounter difficulties in using synonyms, antonyms, conjunctions, references, and lexical cohesion.

The study ends with some pedagogical implications and recommendations for allocating more efforts to the integration of cohesion devices in essay production.