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stress on the syllables of the words. It was done by noting the stress which was put on the word’s syllables; whether the stress was put on the first syllable,
antepenultimate syllable, penultimate syllable, last syllable, or put on more than one syllables. How the students placed the stress incorrectly was observed by the
writer in order to analyze the data.
F. Research Procedure
This research was done through several steps. The very first step was the instrument preparation to obtain the data. In this step, the writer prepared the
video and the script of the play performance The Good Woman of Setzuan in order to collect and note the students’ oral production of word stress.
The second step was listening carefully to the students’ pronunciation in the play performance while checking the play performance’s script in order to
make the process easier. The third step was data collection. The data collection was done by
searching the incorrect word stress by referencing to the related literature or theories presented in Chapter 2. Besides that, the writer noted the students’ stress
in the word level and compared the stress to the transcription in the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary 2008 and the online version of Oxford Advanced
Learner’s Dictionary in order to determine whether the word has incorrect word
stress placement. The fourth step was data analysis. In this step, the writer classified the data
into some categories. The writer also paid attention to how the students
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incorrectly placed the stress on the syllables of a word. Afterwards, the writer attempted to solve the research problems addressed in this study.
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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
This chapter consists of two major sections, namely the presentation and the discussion. The first section deals with the data gathered on this study. On the
other hand, the second section describes the answer of the research problems, which are firstly about the types of word stress errors produced by the students
and secondly about some ways to overcome the word stress errors.
A. Research Results
As presented in Chapter 3, the writer obtained the data by listening carefully to the dialogue spoken by the students in the play performance The
Good Woman of Setzuan. Afterwards, the writer identified the inappropriate or incorrect word stresses which appeared in the play performance using some
theories and dictionaries as the guidance to collect the data. After finding the data, she classified the words based on the word categories and also the stress
placement. Then, the writer transcribed the word stresses produced by the students. The data collected was analyzed in order to answer the two research problems.
Based on the data gathered in this study, the total numbers of words which have wrong stresses are 77 words with 105 total occurrences. It is also found that
there are five word categories which are incorrectly stressed, namely noun, verb, adjective, adverb, and compound. Nouns have the highest rank of incorrect stress
with 62 occurrences. It is followed by adjectives with 22 occurrences, verbs with
