COMMON ALGORITHMS OF PRIMARY STRESS PLACEMENT ON POLYSYLLABIC WORDS

dc.contributor.authorYurtbaşı, Metin
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-28T12:43:28Z
dc.date.available2026-02-28T12:43:28Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.departmentBayburt Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractTurkish students tend to make considerable stress placement errors when pronouncing English polysyllabic words because of the interference of the traditional word stress patterns of their mother tongue. They usually misplace stresses in their utterance, both either as a result of their native pronunciation habits or their lack of stress-placing knowledge in the target language. Experience has clearly shown that one of the most visible areas of weakness in Turkish students learning English is stress placement. This is the main problem to be explored and resolved in this research with an "algorithm of suffixes". The learners of English in Turkey are very much in need of practising such algorithm listings and going through electronic dictionaries. The study patterns or algorithms in this research involve in at least four-syllabled words with one prominent primarily stressed syllable. Students are first given a pretest to see how they naturally fare in English rhythm to expose their wrongly-misplaced stress patterns, their stress mobility concept and their fossilized erratic stressing habits. In the pretest, 25 questions are downloaded via the audacity program given to them within 5 second-intervals three times by the computer. Those freshmen non-initiated to the English stress patterns clearly present in this test a total lack of English stress pattern marked by a general irregularity in their utterance. Then they are briefed on general characteristics of English stress pattern of such polysyllabic words based on their grammatical category within an algorithm of some general suffix patterns. After a 3 hour intensive stress placement drill, a post-test of fresh 25 words is administrated to them. This post-test determines the rate of students' improvement in their pronunciation and proves the efficiency of the algorithm of suffixes introduced.
dc.identifier.endpage29
dc.identifier.issn1300-915X
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.startpage24
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12403/8152
dc.identifier.volume6
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherOğuz SERİN
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Online Journal of Primary Education
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Online Journal of Primary Education (IOJPE)
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Ulusal Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_DergiPark_20260218
dc.subjectOther Fields of Education
dc.subjectAlan Eğitimleri
dc.titleCOMMON ALGORITHMS OF PRIMARY STRESS PLACEMENT ON POLYSYLLABIC WORDS
dc.typeArticle

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