Anggraeni, Puspa (2024) An Analysis of Stress Placement in The Students` Pronunciation at Eleventh Grade Senior High School 1 Pekalongan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

This research aims to 1) find out how students pronounce word stress, 2) find out what types of word stress are difficult for eleventh grade students at SMA N 1 Pekalongan. It is hoped that the results of this research will be useful for students and teachers, especially regarding word stress in pronunciation.

This form of research is qualitative research. Then the subjects in this research were eleventh grade students at SMA N 1 Pekalongan. Researchers analyzed the data in this study using the Miles and Huberman model, namely through several steps such as data collection, data reduction and data display. Data was collected by means of documentation and observation. This research used student recordings as a data.

Researchers found that the stressed pronunciation of eleventh grade students at SMA N 1 Pekalongan was still not correct. The students experience inaccuracies in word stress in both by-syllabic and polysyllabic words. Apart from that, researchers also found that the most difficult words for students were polysyllabic words. Several factors cause inaccuracies in students' pronunciation of word stress, namely that students are not familiar with word stress. Another factor is that students still have difficulty pronouncing words that have more than two syllables.

It can be concluded that eleventh grade students at SMA N 1 Pekalongan still experience difficulties with pronunciation, especially the placement of word stress. Then students experienced the most inaccuracy in placing word stress in words that had more than two syllables. So it can be said that polysyllabic words
or words with more than two syllables are the most difficult for students to pronounce with the right word stress.

Keywords: English, pronunciation, word stress, stress placement

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