Name of the Book: Not named yet but may be “TÜRKLER İÇİN İNGİLİZCEDE DOĞRU TELAFFUZ VE HECE VURGUSU”

(Correct Pronunciation and Word Stress for Turks).

Author: Kenan AKARSLAN

Theme: Correct pronunciation and word stress

The Content in General:

Showing the importance of word stress and guessing the place of the stress:

mechanism (isim) /ˈmɛkənɪzm/ (Stress on the first syllable)

mechanic (sıfat) /mɪˈkænɪk/ (Stress on the first syllable)
mechanically (zarf) /mɪˈkænɪkəli/ (Stress on the first syllable)
mechanician (isim) /ˌmɛkəˈnɪʃən/ (Stress on the first syllable)
mechanize (fiil) /ˈmɛkənaɪz/ (Stress on the first syllable)
mechanization (isim) /ˌmɛkənaɪˈzeɪʃən/ (Stress on the first syllable)

Note for Stanley: The parts in parantheses have been translated into English. The original version is in
Turkish.

The place of the stress is predictable and there are certain rules governing the shifts in the place of the stress.

The first part of the book explains the importance of word stress

The second part of the book presents the IPA and explains it simply with examples from Turkish.
 The third part
explains the sounds that
Turks have difficulty in
hearing and pronouncing;
the similarities and
differences between
certain sounds such as ‘w’
and ‘v’.

This part has the most importance in that it provides a lot of examples for each rule without expecting
learners to memorize them.

The fourth part of the book focuses on its main theme: Word stress

Affixes affecting/not affecting the stress; those receiving the stress on themselves have been
categorised and been provided with loads of examples.
The picture below exemplifies the part with a suffix that receives the stress before itself:

The other parts dwell on these themes in general:

1. Homophones

2. Word stress in proper names (countries, regions, people’s names); word stress in numbers,
reflexive pronouns and so on.

3. Intonation: (yes/no questions and WH- questions; positive and negative sentences or Tag
questions

4. Word stress in sentences (Content words and functional words)

5. Strong and weak forms of words (either content or function).

6. Differences between American and British English pronunciations

7. listening and speaking tips in terms of sounds and word stress

Correct word stress and knowledge of sounds enhance correct listening and speaking. The main aim
of the book is to overcome difficulties that Turkish learners of EFL face within this domain.

Thanks.

Kenan AKARSLAN

Adana Science and Technology University

School of Foreign Languages.

Mobile: 00 90 507 624 39 93

Web: www.kenanakarslan.com

University official web:

https://web.adanabtu.edu.tr/kakarslan/Eng

Mail: kenanakarslan@hotmail.com