How to Overcome the Word Stress Errors

44 times. Nouns have the highest rank with nine occurrences, followed by adjectives with three occurrences, and finally a verb and a compound with respectively one occurrence. There is no occurrence of adverb for this type of error. Answering the second research question, the researcher provides some ways that are helpful for English learners to overcome the word stress errors. Firstly, students should master the phonetic transcription since it is important to understand how to pronounce words based on the dictionaries which use phonetic symbols from the International Phonetic Alphabet IPA. Secondly, students need to consult the dictionary for the placement of the word stress. It is useful because the rule of word stress is irregular. Thirdly, it is important to listen to audio pronunciations provided by some online dictionaries and to practice the pronunciation in order to develop the students’ pronunciation skills. The fourth one is to be aware of different stresses of words since it is important to avoid misunderstanding in communication.

B. Recommendations

Based on the results of this study, there are some recommendations which are presented in this section. The recommendations are for teachers, students, and future researchers. 1. For teachers It is important for teachers to teach students about word stress and especially control the students’ word stress in performing the play performance. Besides, teachers also need to let the students have more opportunities to practice 45 word stress, not only practicing the pronunciation of speech sounds. In this case, teachers can listen and correct the students if they make any errors. Teachers also need to retrain themselves in placing appropriate word stress so that they will be good models for the students. Besides, teachers also need to encourage the students to use appropriate word stress. 2. For students Word stress should be a crucial component the students need to master, especially for English Language Education Study Program’s students since they are expected to be English teachers. On the other hand, it is important to have good pronunciation when the students perform in a play since usually there are many people either from inside or outside Sanata Dharma who watch the play performances conducted by the university. The students’ good pronunciation could help make the remarks or utterances easily understood by the audience. 3. For future researchers This study investigates the word stress production of the students when doing the play performance. It would also be good if future researchers conduct a thesis which discusses some words that are commonly mispronounced and see the mastery of the students in pronouncing those words. 46 REFERENCES Ary, D., Jacobs, L. C., Razavieh, A. 2002. Introduction to research in education 6 th ed.. Belmonth, CA: Wadsworth. Avery, P. Ehrlich, S. 1992. Teaching American English pronunciation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Brown, H. D. 2007. Principles of language learning and teaching 5 th ed.. New York: Longman. Burns, A. 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