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Students Errors in Emphasizing Stress in a Syllable
Stress is the emphasis given to a particular syllable within a word or to a particular
word within a group of words. Some students even college students still make
mistakes and errors in emphasizing stress in a syllable. If the errors are not
revealed and anticipated, the writer is afraid if the errors will be continued. This
paper entitled “Students' Error in Emphasizing Stress in a Syllable” is aimed to
find out what kind of errors do students make, and what is the cause of the error.
This research is conducted to the first semester students of English Education
Study Program, FKIP, Pakuan University. There are four classes chosen by the
writer and the number of the students is as many as 112 students. The writer uses
purposive sampling technique in conducting this research and takes 29 students
who had low score in Pronunciation subject as the sample and uses descriptive
method to describe kinds of error that made by the students in emphasizing stress
in a syllable and the causes why it happened. The main data are gained by
analyzing students‟ test in emphasizing stress in a syllable, questionnaire, and
interview. After analyzing the data, questionnaire and interview, it is concluded
the kinds of errors found are pronunciation and development errors. Meanwhile,
the cause of error is fossilization.
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