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Sound stress patterns of nouns ending in -ion produced 
by English education students 

 
1Syafrizal Sabaruddin, 2Sufiyandi , 3Muhammad Fadhli , 4Zul Amri 

 
1,2,3English Education Study Program, University of Bengkulu, INDONESIA 

1,2,3Jalan WR Supratman, Kandang Limun, Bengkulu 38371 

 
4Universitas Negeri Padang, INDONESIA 

4Jalan Prof. Dr. Hamka, Air Tawar, Padang, West Sumatra 

 

ARTICLE INFO  ABSTRACT 

Article history: 
Received: Aug 12, 2022 
Revised: Nov 3, 2022 
Accepted: Nov 26, 2022 

 
 
 
 

This study investigated the appropriateness and patterns 
of sound stress on nouns ending in -ion produced by 
students of English education study program. The 
research is designed as a descriptive study. There are 40 
English students from Universitas Bengkulu and 

Universitas Negeri Padang who were selected purposively 
out of 240 students as the research participants. The data 
was gathered by using a pronunciation test comprises of 
40 nouns ending in -ion with the category of 2, 3, 4, and 5 
or more syllables. The participants' utterances were 
recorded in an audio form, then the sound stress was 
analyzed using the Audacity application. Based on data 
analysis, it was discovered that: 1) only 34.44% of students 
produced the sound stress appropriately, while the rest 
(65.56) did not; and 2) the pattern of sound stress on noun 
ending in -ion pronounced by the students varied, with the 
no stress category dominating. It proves that the more 
syllables of nouns ending in -ion, the more difficult it is for 
the students to produce sound stress accurately. Finally, 
the English students are expected to raise their awareness 
of practicing sound stress, as it is important for the 
lecturers to provide more chances for the students in the 
learning activities. 

Keywords: 

Sound stress patterns 
nouns ending in -ion 
English education students 
Words syllables 

Conflict of interest:  
None 

 

Funding information: 
Faculty of Teacher Training and 
Education, University of Bengkulu 

 

Correspondence: 
Sufiyandi, English Education Study 
Program, Faculty of Teacher 
Training and Education, University 
of Bengkulu, INDONESIA 
sufiyandi@unib.ac.id 

 

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are projected as teachers in the future. English teacher is one of the major 
learning references in the context of English as a foreign language (Huang, 
2021; Shinga & Pillay, 2021). Thus, the students in English study program 
need to master language skills including listening, speaking, reading, and 
writing skills. 

Of the four English skills above, speaking ability has its own privilege 
because a person's speaking ability becomes a direct assessment of one’s 
performance to communicate in direct situations. Speaking is the skill that 
students want most to master (Darancik, 2018) and becomes the main concern 
that the students are encouraged to develop more than others (Richards & 
Renandya, 2002). In fact, many learners consider fluency in verbal 
communication more important than the ability to read or write. The 
tendency to prioritize speaking mastery is reflected in the view that speaking 
skills are used as a measure of one's English mastery (Shing & Seng, 2020).  

When speaking, pronunciation is a very important thing to pay 
attention to (Gilakjani, 2012). Pronunciation relates to the ability to use the 
correct stress, rhythm, and intonation in a word orally that is acceptable in 
accordance with applicable language rules (Saldıraner & Cinkara, 2021). The 
purpose of mastering the pronunciation of words is so that students are able 
to pronounce English correctly. According to Harmer (2000), awareness of the 
importance of pronunciation will benefit students not only in producing good 
speech but also in understanding spoken English. Similarly, Gilakjani (2016) 
states that incorrect pronunciation makes learning a language much more 
difficult, while good pronunciation enhances learning. 

However, learning pronunciation for second language learners can be 
challenging (Baker, 2021).  Pronouncing English sounds in Indonesian context 
can be more difficult because there are typically no differences between 
spelling a letter and pronouncing a sound in Indonesian language (Donal, 
2016). English learners often have problems placing sound stress (emphasis) 
correctly (Lasut, 2015). Burges and Spencer (2000) state that most of the 
difficulties of learning English is the placement of sound stress. Improper 
placement of sound stresses in English can lead to fatal errors (Liu, 2017). As 
an illustration, the word address can have two meanings: the first is 'location 
of one live' as a 'noun' and second 'to call someone' as a 'verb'. These meanings 
can be distinguished by placing the syllable stress correctly like for 'noun' in 
the first syllable, and for 'verb' in the second syllable. This difficulty occurs 
because the placement of sound stress in English has very strict rules. 

There are some rules in placing the sound stress proposed by experts. 
Kelly (2000) formulates 4 rules: core vocabulary, affixes, compound words, 
and words having more than one forms.  The first is core vocabulary. Many 
colloquial nouns and adjectives consist of two syllables. The emphasis is on 
the first syllable, for example: BROther, MOther, WAter, PAper, TAble,  



 

 

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LOvely. Next is Affixes (prefix and suffix). The stress sound is not placed at 
the affixes, for example: QUIetly, oRIGinally, deFECtive (there are exceptions 
among the prefixes, such as BIcycle and DISlocate); The third is compound 
words. Words that are formed from the combination of two words tend to be 
emphasized on the first word, for examples POSTman, NEWSpaper, TEApot, 
CROSSword. The final rule of stress is a word that can have more than one 
form. In the case of words that can be used as nouns or verbs, nouns will tend 
to be emphasized on the first syllable (according to the 'core vocabulary' rule 
above) and the verb on the last syllable, for examples: IMport (noun), imPORT 
(verb); REbel (noun), reBEL (verb); and INcrease (noun), inCREASE (verb). In 
addition, Roach (2009) mentions that one of the rules in placing stress is the 
number of syllables. The words with more than one syllable must follow 
various stress placement patterns. Accordingly, a two-syllable word is 
stressed on the first syllable, for example, ‘PERfect’, while a three-syllable 
noun is stressed on the second syllable, for example perFECtion.’ Based on 
the division of categories, it is important to make a distinction between strong 
and weak syllables to be identified in English. 

A field study on word stress placement has been carried out by 
Sabaruddin and Kurniawan (2016). They conducted descriptive research by 
recording the pronunciations of words performed by 27 students of English 
education study program at the Teacher Training and Education of 
Universitas Bengkulu (FKIP UNIB). The results of the study found that many 
students placed the emphasis of sound on syllables incorrectly. In addition, 
there were also students who did not predict the stress at all, or on the 
contrary, there were those who said more than one emphasis on one word 
which should only have one emphasis. Moreover, Pareza and Ratmanida 
(2019) studying similar topic found word stress errors made by students of 
English department at Universitas Negeri Padang. The word stress errors are 
related to misplace that happened to 81.8% from total respondents.  

Based on preliminary observations in the speaking class at the English 
Education Study Program, FKIP UNIB, students often make mistakes in the 
placement of sound stresses that have affixes. Affixes that often appear are 
nouns ending with -ion. The examples of words ending in -ion are action, 
introduction, complementation, prediction, and hundreds of others. 
Theoretically, the pattern of placing stress on words ending in -ion is on the 
last two syllables. In other words, how few or how many syllables there are, 
the stress should always precede the suffix -ion (Tokar, 2019). Meanwhile, 
students more often pronounce words ending in -ion by treating them all the 
same, namely being in the initial position. This can be done by students who 
have conceptual knowledge that the sound stress of nouns is on the first 
syllable. Around 65% of students seem not to place any emphasis at all. 
Similarly, the same cases were also found in the conversation class of English 



 

 

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Education at Universitas Negeri Padang (UNP). UNIB and UNP share the 
same characteristics of English language learners in which the students who 
study there have a cognate language. 

Accordingly, the sound stress pattern on nouns ending in -ion 
produced by students has not been studied widely. A study of placing sound 
stress on words ending in -ion becomes a very interesting issue. So, the 
questions of this study are: (1) How is the appropriateness of the sound stress 
pronounced by the students of English Education Study Program? and (2) 
what are the patterns of sound stress syllables that the students produce? 
 
METHOD  
Research Design  
This research was carried out with a descriptive method design because the 
intended data are based on individual or groups exploration (Creswell, 2014). 
Particularly, the objectives of the study are: 1) to find out the appropriateness 
of the sound stress on nouns ending in –ion pronounced by students of the 
English education study program; and 2) to investigate what patterns of the 
sound stress that the students of the English education study program 
produce on nouns ending in –ion.  

This research was conducted at Universitas Bengkulu and Universitas 
Negeri Padang. Both universities have an English Education Study Program 
which became the research target. The research was carried out from July to 
December 2021. 

The research involved all the fifth semester students of the English 
education study program involving Universitas Bengkulu and Universitas 
Negeri Padang (240 students). The purpose of determining the 5th semester 
is that the students at this level are assumed to have passed the entire series 
of basic courses, especially speaking courses. Furthermore, 40 students (20 
from each university) were selected as the sample of the study purposively. 
 
Instruments and Procedures 
The data of this research was the recording of the students’ pronunciation. In 
gathering the data, the students were asked to read a list of words (once per 
word). Each student pronounced the words one by one in an offline meeting, 
and had eight to ten minutes. The students’ pronunciation was recorded in 
the form of audio. They referred to a pronunciation test. Next, the results were 
processed in the Audacity application as the research instruments. 
 
Pronunciation test 
The pronunciation test contains a list of nouns ending in –ion consisting of 2, 
3, 4, and 5 or more syllables. The last category of syllable is determined as the 



 

 

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greatest number of syllables. There are 40 words which are divided equally 
based on the number of syllable categories as presented in Table 1. 
 
 Table 1. List of words in pronunciation test 

 2 syllables 3 syllables 4 syllables ≥ 5 syllables 
Function Proportion Conversation Communication 
Nation Conclusion Generation Consideration 
Vision Injection Information Participation 

Version Regression Publication Identification 
Option Cohesion Integration Classification 
Notion Audition Interruption Dissatisfaction 
Tension Direction Transportation Internationalization 
Faction Solution Intonation Organization 

Sanction Selection Graduation Determination 
Question Tradition Interpretation Continuation 

 
Audacity Application 
The sound recordings were converted using the Audacity application. 
Audacity is an application that can analyse sound and show amplitudes that 
indicate the sound stresses produced in the form of images. Figure 1 illustrates 
the example of sound amplitudes. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Figure 1. Screenshot of Audacity from Respondent's record 
 
The above figure portrays the sound amplitude as the correct sound stress in 
pronouncing the word ‘audition.’ From the three sounds of syllable, the most 
weighted stress falls on the second syllable that precedes -ion.     
 
Data Analysis Procedures 
The researchers conducted several procedures in analyzing the data. After 
converting the audio into amplitude form in the Audacity application, the 
data were reviewed and explored several times to group the amplitude based 
on the categories as follow: 
 
 
 
 



 

 

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Table 2. Number of syllable category 

No 
Number of 

Syllable 
The position of Stress 

1. Two syllables 1st/ 2nd/ No stress 

2. Three syllables 1st/ 2nd/ 3rd/ 1st and 2nd/ 1st and 3rd/ 2nd and 3rd/ No stress 

3. 
Four syllables 1st/ 2nd/ 3rd/ 4th/ 1st and 2nd/ 1st and 3rd/ 1st and 4th/ 2nd and 

3rd/ 3rd and 4th/ 1st, 2nd, and 3rd/ No stress 

4. 

 
Five or more 
syllables 

1st/ 2nd/ 3rd/ 4th/ 5th/ 1st and 2nd/ 1st and 3rd/ 1st and 4th/ 1st, 
2nd, and 3rd, 1st, 2nd, and 4th/ 1st, 3rd, and 4th/ 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 
5th/ 1st, 3rd, and 5th/ 1st, 4th, and 5th/ 2nd and 3rd/ 2nd and 4th/ 
3rd and 4th/ 3rd and 5th/ No Stress 

 
FINDINGS  
The Appropriateness of Sound Stress  
The first analysis is to determine the correct placement of the sound stress of 
nouns ending in –ion produced by English education students from both 
Universitas Bengkulu (UNIB) and Universitas Negeri Padang (UNP). Table 2 
presents the results of the sound stress appropriateness analysis.  
 
Table 3. The results of sound stress appropriateness analysis 

No Number of syllables 
Appropriate Inappropriate 

f % f % 

1 Two 214 53.50 186 46.50 
2 Three 132 33.00 268 67.00 
3 Four 124 31.00 276 69.00 
4 Five and more 81 20.25 319 79.75 

Total 551 34.44 1049 65.56 

  
As presented in Table 2, the total number of inappropriate sound stress 
(65.55%) occurs more than that of the appropriate one (34.44%). If viewed in 
more detail based on the number of syllables, the largest number of incorrect 
words produced by students was in words ending in -ion which consist of 5 
syllables (79.75%) followed by 4 syllables (69.00%). The only syllable category 
that can be pronounced appropriately with stress sound is two syllables with 
53.50%. From these results, it is concluded that the more syllables in a noun 
ending in –ion, the greater the number of inaccuracies in sound stress 
pronounced by the students. 
 
The Patterns of Sound Stress  
Next is the sound stress pattern. In the data findings of this section, the 
patterns of sound stress produced by the students were calculated. The words 



 

 

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that consist of two syllables actually should be stress in the second one. Based 
on the data, there are three patterns of sound stress that occurred for words 
consisting of 2 syllables produced by students. The general pattern is for the 
first syllable (53.50%). The next pattern is without emphasis (43.25%). The last 
pattern is for the second syllable (3.2%). In conclusion, more than half of the 
sound stress patterns of nouns ending in -ion produced by the students are in 
acceptable patterns. These results shown in the following table: 
 
Table 4. The sound stress pattern of two syllables words  

No Syllable stress pattern f (%) 

1 1st 214 53.50 
2 2nd 13 3.25 
3 No Stress 173 43.25 

Total 400 100.00 

 
Furthermore, the group of nouns ending in –ion consists of 3 syllables. 
Basically, in nouns ending in -ion consisting of 3 syllables, the sound stress is 
on the second syllable, but it can be seen in Table 4 that there are 7 patterns of 
sound stress produced by the respondents. The emphasis falls on syllables 1, 
2, 3, 1 & 2, 1 & 3, 2 & 3, and no stress. Of the 7 existing patterns, the 
respondents mostly mentioned without emphasis (36.50%). 
 
Table 5. The sound stress pattern of three syllables words 

No Syllable stress pattern f (%) 

1 1st 33 8.25 
2 2nd 132 33.00 
3 3rd 13 3.25 
4 1st and 2nd 58 14.50 
5 1st and 3rd 10 2.50 
6 2nd and 3rd 8 2.00 
7 No Stress 146 36.50 

Total 400 100.00 

 
For data results on nouns ending in –ion with 4 syllables, there are 11 existing 
patterns. However, most respondents mention this group of words with no 
stress, which is 32.00%. The correct pattern is in the third syllable and only 
31.00% can pronounce it correctly. The example of the word is ‘conversation’ 
(kɒn.vəˈseɪ.ʃən).  
 
Table 6. The sound stress pattern of four syllables words 

No Syllable stress pattern f (%) 

1 1st  15 3.75 
2 2nd  29 7.25 
3 3rd  124 31.00 
4 4th  19 4.75 



 

 

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No Syllable stress pattern f (%) 

5 1st and 2nd  5 1.25 
6 1st and 3rd  22 5.50 
7 1st and 4th  4 1.00 
8 2nd and 3rd  26 6.50 
9 1st, 2nd, and 3rd  16 4.00 
10 3rd and 4th 12 3.00 
11 No Stress 128 32.00 

Total 400 100.00 

 
The last group of words is nouns ending in –ion which consist of 5 or more 
syllables, for example the word ‘communication’ (kəˌmjuː.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃən)  
Supposedly, the sound stress falls on the 4th syllable. However, the data 
shows there are 19 patterns in which no stress became the dominant one. 
 
Table 7. The sound stress pattern of five and more syllables words 

No Syllable stress pattern f (%) 

1 1st 31 7.75 
2 2nd 22 5.50 
3 3rd 11 2.75 
4 4th 81 20.25 
5 5th 7 1.75 
6 1st and 2nd 5 1.25 
7 1st and 3rd 4 1.00 
8 1st and 4th 49 12.25 
9 1st, 2nd, and 3rd 12 3.00 
10 1st, 2nd, and 4th 2 0.50 
11 1st, 3rd, and 4th 1 0.25 
12 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 5th 1 0.25 
13 1st, 3rd, and 5th 1 0.25 
14 1st, 4th, and 5th 1 0.25 
15 2nd and 3rd 16 4.00 
16 2nd and 4th 8 2.00 
17 3rd and 4th 1 0.25 
18 3rd and 5th 4 1.00 
19 No Stress 143 35.75 

Total 400 100.00 

 
DISCUSSION  
This study discovered that although more than half of the students were able 
to produce stress on two-syllable nouns ending in -ion appropriately, the 
students still struggled to produce stress on three-, four-, and five-syllable 
nouns ending in -ion. This was consistent with the findings of Liu (2017), 
Ghorbani (2019), and Jaiprasong and Pongpairoj (2020), who found that EFL 
learners, such as Indonesian, Thai, Iranian, and Chinese, have difficulties in 
assigning English word stress.  



 

 

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Further finding of this research indicates that of the four types of 
syllable numbers (syllables of two, three, four, and five), the students 
dominantly pronounce the words with no stress. In line with this, Yana (2017) 
found that when Indonesian students pronounce English words containing 
more than one syllable, they tend to produce stress on each syllable equally. 
In addition, Weda (2012) reveals not only no stress syllable, but she also found 
that Indonesian students misplace the stress. 

Moreover, the variety of stress patterns produced by the students also 
become an important highlight in this result. The students make a variety of 
stress sounds ranging from the first to the end of the syllable. The stressed 
sounds vary. The varieties are 3 patterns in the words of two syllables, 7 
patterns in the words of three syllables, 11 patterns in the words of four 
syllables, and 19 patterns in the words of five syllables. The students 
surprisingly put sound stress in many places to a particular word despite each 
word in English having only one stress. This case may strike native speakers 
as odd or unusual (Sabaruddin & Ildi, 2017). 

The misplacement of English word stress produced by the students 
might be due to the students’ first language interference. The students’ L1 
might affect the way they produce English word stress. A study conducted by 
Altmann (2006) proves that native language stress properties influenced the 
second language acquisition of primary word stress. Therefore, the 
similarities and differences between the stress pattern of learners’ L1 and L2 
affect their word stress acquisition (Malghani & Bano, 2014; Peperkam & 
Dupoux, 2002). 

Additionally, less knowledge of English word stress rules is also a 
factor of inappropriateness in assigning English word stress. Generally, the 
pronunciation, particularly word stress, appears to be of little concern in 
English classes in Indonesia (Arienintya, 2017). However, unlike the 
Indonesian language, not all syllables in English are assigned with equal 
stress (Van Zanten & Goedemans, 2009). Consequently, Indonesian students 
are not familiar with the sound stress as it does not exist in Bahasa Indonesia 
(Widagsa et al., 2019). The difference has resulted in confusion for Indonesian 
students in placing the stress of English words (Yana, 2017). Therefore, being 
aware of the importance of knowing the rules in placing English sound stress 
as proposed by Kelley (2000), Roach (2009), and Tokar (2019) is very important 
for both teachers and students. 
 
CONCLUSION 
Based on the research findings and discussion, it can be concluded that the 
majority of students of the English Education Study Program in both 
universities do not place sound stress on nouns ending in -ion appropriately. 
Of the 4 types of nouns ending in -ion based on the number of syllables (two, 



 

 

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three, four, and 5 syllables) the students dominantly pronounce words with 
no stress. The patterns of the sounds stress on nouns ending in -ion produced 
by the students appear variously on the words containing multiple syllables. 
Therefore, the more syllables in a particular word, the higher the level of 
difficulty encountered by the students. 
  Eventually, the results of this research can contribute to raising the 
students’ awareness of producing the sound stress appropriately according to 
the syllable numbers with -ion suffixes in the form of nouns. Besides, it is also 
useful for lectures to provide more comprehensive instruction and practice 
for the students when teaching pronunciation, especially about word stress. 
However, the issue of this study is limited in the aspects of cultures, genders, 
and ages. Accordingly, further studies are recommended to investigate the 
stress sound nouns ending in -ion produced by students based on their 
backgrounds related to the abovementioned scopes. 
 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Faculty of Teacher 
Training and Education, Universitas Bengkulu, for funding this research 
under contract number 4925.c/UN30.7/LT/2021. We would also like to 
acknowledge all of the people who took part in this study.  
 
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