Diversity In Pronunciation

English is spoken worldwide by more than 340 million native speakers and the use of English for international communication is constantly growing (Gordon and Grimes, 2005). Therefore, this language has huge varieties globally. However, it is noteworthy that American English and British English are the two most important. Conversely, although many English learners have already had chances to hear American English and British English, at least on the Internet and in films, some of them may not recognize the differences between the American and British in general and their pronunciation in particular. Likewise, it is necessary to underline that the diversity in pronunciation is one the most difficulties for English, foreign learners because the

Trudgill (1984:32) stated that standard English is a social dialect which can be defined as “a set of grammatical and lexical forms typically used in speech and writing by educated native speakers”. Meanwhile, for Yule, he deemed that standard English is the version “found in printed English in newspapers and books, is widely used in the mass media and is taught in most school” (Yule, 2006). In the context of language learning, in america General American pronunciation (henceforth GA) is considered as the standard pronunciation which conveys the politics status, social position and education. This accent has achieved a dominant position with two-third of the USA population employ (IPA, 1999:4) and is considered not marking any “regional north-eastern or southern characteristics”. (Trudgill, P., & Hannah, J. 2013). In term of British English, despite the huge variation in the pronunciation, Received Pronunciation (henceforth RP) adopted as a conservative model and more familiar with the world, is spoken by only 2% of the United Kingdom population (Wells, J. 2008). In spite of a small number of people implementing, RP is still regarded as a standard model of pronunciation in Britain because of its voice representation of education, authority, economic power. It is probably the most widely studied in the world. Nowadays, General American and Received Pronunciation accents are represented by the BBC and CNN. These two viral channels is arguably the most well-know English broadcasting standard accents, flexible and closed to real life language. Moreover, these accents have made a wide distribution to the pronunciation model of modern English. As a results, this essay will utilize the videos from these two channels as