Since this study only focuses on stress placement of disyllabic nouns, trisyllabic nouns, tetrasyllabic nouns, affix nouns, and compound nouns, any other
types of speech will not be analyzed. Moreover, any mistake in sound accuracy, sentence stress, and grammar will be disregarded.
D. Research Objectives
The objectives of this research are stated as follows: 1.
To find out how well the students master the stress placement of disyllabic nouns, trisyllabic nouns, tetrasyllabic nouns, affix nouns, and compound
nouns. 2.
To find out errors that are made toward the disyllabic nouns, trisyllabic nouns, tetrasyllabic nouns, affix nouns, and compound nouns.
E. Research Benefits
This study tries to give an overview of the students’ mastery of stress placement especially of nouns. It gives some benefits to English learners,
teachers, and future researchers. This study hopefully could help the English learners to develop their skill
in placing the stress on the right syllable. Also, by reading this study, they could identify words that are commonly spoken with wrong stress pattern so that they
could avoid doing the same mistake. Because this research gives an overview of the students’ mastery of word
stress, the English teachers could discover how far the students master the stress PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
placement. Also, the teacher would also find out the words that are commonly spoken with wrong stress pattern. This awareness helps the teacher in facilitating
the students in acquiring the word stress. Moreover, future researchers could use this study as the basic knowledge
to conduct another research in students’ mastery of stress placement. This research also includes its shortages so that the future researchers could find some
way to avoid that.
F. Definition of Terms
Some important concepts in this study are defined as follows: 1.
Mastery Stern 1983:346 argues that someone has the mastery of a language when she
or he has a.
the intuitive mastery of the forms of the language, b.
the intuitive mastery of the linguistics, cognitive, affective, and sociocultural meaning, expressed by the language forms,
c. the capacity to use the language with maximum attention to
communication and minimum attention to form, and d.
the creativity of language use Related to the topic of this research, mastery is defined as the ability to
produce the appropriate word stress pattern in the form of speech. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
2. Stress Placement
In this study, stress placement refers to word stress of nouns. Word stress is one main emphasized syllable in a word. The vowel sound in this syllable
sounds higher in pitch, longer, and louder. Therefore, some particular syllables of nouns sound more prominent than others.
3. Nouns
Noun is one of the most important parts of speech. It could be functioned as a subject, object, or subjective complement in a central core of a sentence.
Moreover, the nouns that are used in this study are only common nouns. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
