This bachelor thesis presents a study of cross-language prosodic competencies of Finnish high school students (N = 28). Stress shifts of English noun-verb homographs made by Finnish native speakers attending a Finnish high school were studied by recording and analyzing the pronunciation of the students. The pronunciation test was conducted by recording the students’ reading sentences out loud from a prepared sheet. Embedded in the sentences were 22 disyllabic homographs. Error frequencies of both variations of each homograph for a total of 616 items were analyzed. Out of 616 words, a total of 144 stress-related pronunciation errors were made. The stress-related pronunciation errors consisted predominantly of stress-inversion. Out of 308 verbs, 47 were stressed incorrectly as nouns. The corresponding numbers for nouns were 84 out of 308. Most frequently mispronounced were words with con as the initial syllable. The data indicates that the students significantly favor end-stress at predictable loci, which is ascribed mostly to hypercorrection. In conclusion, Finnish ESL students are adept at recognizing the need for contrastive stress in English noun-verb homographs despite the phenomenon’s absence in their native language. The findings serve as a positive remark for the Finnish education system and more specifically the teaching of foreign languages in Finland.