A Diagnostic-remedial Survey of Iranian EFL Teachers’ Knowledge and Practice of Suprasegmental Pronunciation Features

Suprasegmental phonology mainly deals with pitch, stress and juncture. This study aims at determining Iranian EFL teachers’ knowledge level and practice rate in this area. Via a test designed by the researchers, the data were collected from a population of 200 English teachers, all academically educated with at least three years of experience in English teaching, working in diverse language institutes in Tehran. Data Analysis vividly depicted a noticeable portion of the population had poor command of literacy in Suprasegmental phase, and among those otherwise, few cared to incorporate this phase into their common classroom orchestration procedures. Several remedies to mend this flaw are offered in the end.