%0 Journal Article
%T A Potential Solution to Chinese Students¡¯ Unintelligible English Accent: A Study of the Effectiveness of a Stress Placement Intervention to Improve Chinese English Speakers¡¯ Lexical Pronunciation
%A Liwen Liu
%J Chinese Studies
%P 140-156
%@ 2168-541X
%D 2023
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/chnstd.2023.122013
%X Due to a lack of authentic learning resources, Chinese students often do
not receive native pronunciation models in their classes. This study provided
Chinese students with an approach to improve their English pronunciation, <span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\">specifically to sound more like British Received
Pronunciation (RP) or Gen</span><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\">eral American English
Pronunciation (GAEP). The study proposes word</span><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\"> stress <span>prediction rules to help non-native Chinese
learners predict the primary </span>word stress of English words, improving
their vocabulary pronunciation. <span>Repeated-measures
tests confirmed the effectiveness of this model, and statist</span>ical results
showed that these rules were both applicable and teachable<span>. These rules successfully enabled Chinese English
learners to stress the correct vo</span>wel in a new English word without
consulting a dictionary. Chinese students <span>can
rely on these rules for predicting the word stress of dictionary words,</span><span> enabling them to pronounce new words as accurately
as possible to native speakers.</span></span>
%K British Received Pronunciation (RP)
%K General American English Pronunciation (GAEP)
%K Intelligibility
%K Primary Word Stress Placement
%K Vocabulary Part of Speech
%K Word Endings
%K Word Length
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=124343