The Effect of Bubble Cards on Word Stress Errors and Retention of EFL Learners: A Comparison of Turkish and Farsi Native Speakers

Abstract

The present study recommends an influential teaching English sentence stress technique based on Bubble Cards for instructing sentence stress sufficiently. Males and females have been chosen randomly and homogeneously as Turkish and Farsi groups. A production-test was made from 40 sentences to force the participants read aloud the sentences obviously and their sounds were recorded for evaluating. The test has been implemented as pre-, post-, and delay pot-test. For evaluating its reliability in advance, it was piloted on a small group of participants. The aim of the second delayed test was to subject whether Bubble Cards had more influence on the learners’ sentence stress retentions and mightsave their sentence stress memorizing for a longer period of time. The satisfactory outcomes of the study approvedthe encouragement of Bubble Cards for studding sentence stress and retention of Farsi group better than the Turkish group