Demonstration Of Problems Of Lexical Stress On The Pronunciation Turkish English Teachers And Teacher Trainees By Computer

Stress is an important intonational and prosodic feature both in North American English (NAE) and Brtish English (BrE.); therefore, lexical stress placement of the speaker and its perception as lexical stress detection occupy a crucial role in teaching English as a foreign language. The identification, determination and assignment of lexical stress are crucial issues because the perception of stressed syllables can provide non-native speaking teachers islands of reliability where the phonetic information is more prominent. But still the issue of stress assignment has not received much attention in foreign language teacher training programs. This paper stresses that nuclear stress placement has important implications for non-native speaking teachers. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer review under responsibility of Prof. Dr. Huseyin UzunboyluWo