2025/01/19 by Ekeruke, Sediong
#Annang Students #Contrastive Analysis #Intonation #Non-natives #Stress
paper · doi:10.60951/afrischolar-345
This study portrays the pronunciation of English Language by the Annang Students of the Faculty of Arts, Akwa Ibom State University on the aspect of Stress and Intonation. There have always been some existing challenges by the non-natives on the segmental of the pronunciation of English words, that is, the sounds and sound change. Unarguably, the greatest percentage of the problem is faced on the aspect of nonsegmental phonology which for this study, Stress and Intonation are considered. Annang Students of Akwa Ibom State University do not use English language often, thereby making them exposed to some problems of pronunciation as there is no fluency and accuracy in their speeches. This study uses the Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis to carry out a Contrastive study of English Stress and Intonation patterns among students of Akwa Ibom State University, Faculty of Arts. Poor intonation can cause misunderstanding and even produce an unfavorable impression of a person. The most common mistakes of intonation are norising pitch and the use of the wrong pitch. Students often have more trouble imitating the rising than the falling intonation and they often don’t use the right pitch to convey feelings. (Irma Rusadze 2018). Stress patterns, at both the word level and the sentence level, are important for intelligibility, and offer a useful starting point for teaching pronunciation, particularly with a class of students from different L1 backgrounds (Benrabah 1997; Chela-Flores 2001). This study tested Twenty (20) Annang students of the Faculty of Arts across all Departments and the result of Student's performance thereof was generally poor which was attributed to certain linguistic factors listed above.