Analyzing Students’ Pronunciation of Word Stress of IET 7 Students of Cambridge English College (CEC) Makassar

This research found that there were some misplaced stress made by thestudents.The misplaced stress happened tothe two-syllable words, three-syllablewords, and four-syllable words. The misplaced word stress made by the studentswere quite similar. Few students even misplaced same word stress. The wordsstress that misplaced were even the simple words. It wasconcluded that the students of IET 7 Cambridge English College(CEC) Makassar still face problem about the pronunciation especially the wordstress. The students’ misplaced stress are quite similar. The words mostmisplaced stress made by the students are the two-syllable words. It was alsofound that the Indonesian accent was causing the students misplaced the wordstress.The students face the difficulty to place the stress correctly even thoughthey had been trained well as good speakers and instructors