We suggest a kinesthetic approach that involves touching objects (cards) to improve awareness of lexical stress in English, in combination with a classical morphological approach (word endings determining the lexical stress) of the "French school". As a starting point, we present an experimental study on auditory perception of lexical stress in words with stress-imposing endings to determine the difficulties encountered by French-speaking learners. The results are compared with those of a paper test, in which participants had to choose the syllable bearing the primary stress among the syllables presented in orthography.