Problem Formulation Problem Limitation Research Objectives

B. Problem Formulation

This research would like to address two questions. There are: 1. How well is the students’ mastery of stress placement of disyllabic nouns, trisyllabic nouns, tetrasyllabic nouns, affix nouns, and compound nouns? 2. What errors do they make toward the disyllabic nouns, trisyllabic nouns, tetrasyllabic nouns, affix nouns, and compound nouns?

C. Problem Limitation

To make the study easier, the writer divides the nouns into five parts: disyllabic nouns as table, window, and people, trisyllabic nouns as disaster, privacy, and custody, tetrasyllabic nouns as pedestrian, affix nouns as business and legality, and compound nouns as T-shirt and T-junction. The first three parts are the stem nouns without any affixation or compounding process. The participants of the study are the second semester students of the English Language Education Study Program in the academic year 20072008. There are approximately 160 people. In this study, the writer analyzes the mastery of stress placement of nouns among the second semester students. In detail, she intends to obtain data about how well the students master the stress placement of disyllabic nouns, trisyllabic nouns, tetrasyllabic nouns, affix nouns, and compound nouns and also what errors they make toward the disyllabic nouns, trisyllabic nouns, tetrasyllabic nouns, affix nouns, and compound nouns. 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