Accounting for L2 learners’ errors in word stress placement

Stress placement in English words is governed by highly complicated rules. Thus, assigning stress correctly in English words has been a challenging task for L2 learners, especially Indonesian learners since their L1 does not recognize such stress system. This study explores the production of English...

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Main Author: Clara Herlina Karjo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia 2016-01-01
Series:Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics
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Online Access:http://ejournal.upi.edu/index.php/IJAL/article/view/1344
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spelling doaj-01d1a99c62fe42439ee564d86c3f04e52020-11-25T00:11:58ZengUniversitas Pendidikan IndonesiaIndonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics2301-94682502-67472016-01-015219920810.17509/ijal.v5i2.13441086Accounting for L2 learners’ errors in word stress placementClara Herlina Karjo0Universitas Katolik Atma JayaStress placement in English words is governed by highly complicated rules. Thus, assigning stress correctly in English words has been a challenging task for L2 learners, especially Indonesian learners since their L1 does not recognize such stress system. This study explores the production of English word stress by 30 university students. The method used for this study is immediate repetition task. Participants are instructed to identify the stress placement of 80 English words which are auditorily presented as stimuli and immediately repeat the words with correct stress placement. The objectives of this study are to find out whether English word stress placement is problematic for L2 learners and to investigate the phonological factors which account for these problems. Research reveals that L2 learners have different ability in producing the stress, but three-syllable words are more problematic than two-syllable words. Moreover, misplacement of stress is caused by, among others, the influence of vowel lenght and vowel height.http://ejournal.upi.edu/index.php/IJAL/article/view/1344stress placement, word stress, vowel length, vowel height, production, recognition
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author Clara Herlina Karjo
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Accounting for L2 learners’ errors in word stress placement
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics
stress placement, word stress, vowel length, vowel height, production, recognition
author_facet Clara Herlina Karjo
author_sort Clara Herlina Karjo
title Accounting for L2 learners’ errors in word stress placement
title_short Accounting for L2 learners’ errors in word stress placement
title_full Accounting for L2 learners’ errors in word stress placement
title_fullStr Accounting for L2 learners’ errors in word stress placement
title_full_unstemmed Accounting for L2 learners’ errors in word stress placement
title_sort accounting for l2 learners’ errors in word stress placement
publisher Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
series Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics
issn 2301-9468
2502-6747
publishDate 2016-01-01
description Stress placement in English words is governed by highly complicated rules. Thus, assigning stress correctly in English words has been a challenging task for L2 learners, especially Indonesian learners since their L1 does not recognize such stress system. This study explores the production of English word stress by 30 university students. The method used for this study is immediate repetition task. Participants are instructed to identify the stress placement of 80 English words which are auditorily presented as stimuli and immediately repeat the words with correct stress placement. The objectives of this study are to find out whether English word stress placement is problematic for L2 learners and to investigate the phonological factors which account for these problems. Research reveals that L2 learners have different ability in producing the stress, but three-syllable words are more problematic than two-syllable words. Moreover, misplacement of stress is caused by, among others, the influence of vowel lenght and vowel height.
topic stress placement, word stress, vowel length, vowel height, production, recognition
url http://ejournal.upi.edu/index.php/IJAL/article/view/1344
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