An Analysis Of Word Stress Pronounced By The Seventh Semester Students At English Department Of FKIP UIR

Margareht, Rohani Sri (2020) An Analysis Of Word Stress Pronounced By The Seventh Semester Students At English Department Of FKIP UIR. Other thesis, Universitas Islam Riau.

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ABSTRACT ROHANI SRI MARGAREHT. (2020). An Analysis of Word Stress Pronounced by the Seventh Semester Students at English Department of FKIP UIR. Thesis The researcher analyzed this research entitled “An Analysis of Word Stress Pronounced by The Seventh Semester Students at English Department of FKIP UIR” to investigated the word stress among the seventh semester students of English Department in Universitas Islam Riau and know how the students put stresses on word in English. Furthermore, the researcher applied descriptive qualitative design as the research method. The script of the word stress was made by finding the 20 words from the Pronunciation Intensive Academic Program Book. To collect the data, the researcher followed the stages as (1) made an appointment with the students before taking the data. (2) asked the students one by one to read slowly and carefully the 20 words and it would be recorded. (3) used an observation table. This table was used by researcher when gathering the data. It aimed to identify how the respondents showed the data 20 words stress. The researcher analyzed the data by listening carefully to the student’s stress and pronunciation. The results of this study showed that there were three types of word stress errors. The first type of error produced by the students were misplaced word stress. In this type, the stress fell on the wrong syllable of the word. The second type of error was unstressed the word. In this type, the students did not put the stress in the exact place on word. The third type of error was mispronounced the word. In this type, the students did not pronounce the word correctly.

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