What constitutes a foreign accent is an intricate matter that involves a wide variety of variables. From the phonological perspective, both segmental and prosodic aspects have been revealed to have an influence on the perception of foreign accent [1]. The current research intends to explore whether ability in prosody perception is correlated with the degree of perceived foreign accent in pronounced utterances. 30 Chinese university students aged 21 to 25 with an intermediate level of English provided oral recordings in the form of text-reading and free-talk,followed by an English sentence stress perception test. Subsequently, 6 native English speakers scored the participants’ recordings in terms of their foreign accent. The performance on sentence stress perception and the scale of foreign accent were compared to explore whether a correlation exists between the two parameters. The results of the statistical analysis indicated a significant positive correlation. Thus, this study provides new evidence of the need to investigate the acquisition of suprasegmental features in learning English as a foreign language. Based on these findings, effective classroom techniques integrating suprasegmental perception and production could be developed for facilitating EFL learners’ acquisition of proficient pronunciation.