The Analysis of Students' Errors in Stress Placement in English Pronunciation

The objective of this research was to identify and to analyze the errors made by grade XI students of SMA Negeri 5 Palu in locating stress (stress placement) in English pronunciation and also to find out why the errors occurred. The research subject was XI IPA III which consisted of 29 students selected by using purposive sampling technique. The techniques of data collection were test, questionnaire and interview. In analyzing the data, the researcher used Simple Statistics Analysis. From the result of test, the researcher found that the students made an overgeneralization error which categorized as inter-lingual (mother tongue factors) and intra-lingual (target/native language) errors. The error occurred because of the effect of the students' mother tongue language and their understanding about target language was poor. The total percentage of errors both from oral test and written test are 74.75% which categorized as high error. It means that the ability of the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 5 Palu in locating stress in English words specifically in nouns and verbs was poor. Keywords: Error Analysis, Stress Placement, English Pronunciatio