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US-China Education Review A 1 (2012) 26-40 D Earlier title: US-China Education Review, ISSN 1548-6613 DAVID PUBLISHING Teaching Word Stress to Turkish EFL (English as a Foreign Language) Learners Through Internet-Based Video Lessons Murat Hismanoglu Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey The purpose of this study is to elicit problem causing word stress patterns for Turkish EFL (English as a foreign language) learners and investigate whether Internet-based pronunciation lesson is superior to traditional pronunciation lesson in terms of enhancing Turkish EFL learners’ accurate production of stressed syllables in English words. A pre-post test design with two groups of Turkish EFL learners: an experimental (N = 15) and a control group (N = 15) was used. The learners’ pre- and post- test recordings were analyzed with paired samples T-test and independent samples T-test. Findings indicated that the experimental group outperformed the control group in the final test administered. Keywords: stress, word stress, suprasegmental phonology, Internet-based video lessons Introduction During the past 20 years, pronunciation specialists have stressed suprasegmentals rather than segmentals in enhancing oral communication (Avery Ehrlich, 1992; Morley, 1991). A shared assertion of L2 (second language) pronunciation researchers is that attributing prominence to the suprasegmental features of English not only maximizes learners’ int