AVOIDING LEXICAL REPETITIONS IN STUDENTS'ESSAY WRITING AT DONG THAP UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The article discusses different devices of avoiding unwanted repetitions in English essay writings by EFL  learners  at  Dong  Thap  University  while  still  assuring  cohesive  requirements.  In  addition  to  personal pronouns as very o ften seen in their essay - writing term papers, other devices should be attentively noted and regularly practiced by the students under the teacher’s sound guidance. These include the uses of the binary pair “the  former  …,  the  latter”,  synonyms,  near - synonyms,  super - ordinates,  zero - objects,  ellipsis,  omissions, compound - complex sentences, nominalizations and phrasalizations.