The results of this study should be interpreted carefully for several reasons. First, given the limited number of the
students, the findings of this study remain inconclusive and call for subsequent studies analyzing a larger group of
participants. Next, as discussed in the literature, it is possible that pronunciation competence of the learners might be
influenced by other pertinent variables e.g. age, field of study, phonetic ability, etc. In addition, there is a limitation in
selecting words covered in the test from two textbooks used to assess the learners’ word stress scores, future research,
thus, should be systematically supplemented with other sources which might provide and support the ways to assess
pronunciation competence of the learners. Moreover, further investigation should investigate the relationship between
the learner’s English language pronunciation competence and actual performance.