In the process of learning, Vietnamese learners tend to pay more attention to
the fluency (how fast they could speak) and to the number of vocabulary (how
many words they could remember), but less attention to the accuracy (how
they could speak a sentence with correct stress and intonation). By that, there
should be some changes in the students‘ awareness in the ways of learning
English professionally.
English is the best way for us to have a great deal of opportunities to reach the
success in life. Why do Vietnamese students make the wrong stress
placement? What can be the cause of those errors? If the answers to these
questions can be found, it is hoped that something could be done to help
students to avoid or correct them. Therefore, to understand and communicate
English effectively the learners should not only pay attention to vocabulary,
grammar but master sentence stress as well. However ―what is sentence
stress?‖ ―How can sentence stress affect communication?‖ For both English
learners in general and HPU English majors in particular, there is little
attention to the importance of sentence stress in communication.