Introduction

The accent is defined as the pronunciation that opposed the grammatical and lexical composition of sound. That means with an accent, every utterance is pronounced. This accent is judged with posh, standard, foreign etc. Thus, the choice of regional form is done or not, the regional accent may be determined. In the defined manner, accent should be perceived and identified during the different pronunciation spoken by one’s.

The major cause of miscommunication is Accent rather than the others issues such as lack of knowledge and informal expressions which also identifies as one of the concern. The greater problems can be generated by the unintelligible sounds than the speech with lexical or grammatical errors because of weaken communicative competence of second language (L2) speakers. Therefore, researchers conclude that problems related to accent are the most silent issues of spoken English language (Park et al., 2017).

The learner’s ability for successful communication requires the large part of acquisition of second language. More successful and less successful acquires have a key difference that is related to their ability to use listening as an acquisition.

The substantial component of mastering a second language is the attaining of standard pronunciation. Second language is denoted as L2. The conversation flow can be disturbed by the lack of competency in pronunciation due to forcing the speaker to use more mental resources in the speech process by which fluency is reduced. This is also seen that the credibility of second language (L2) learners is affected by the foreign accented speech in the native listener’s perception. L2 listeners is also affected. Besides that the non-native speakers are more discriminated with the strong foreign accent, for example in job interviews and service evaluations. In this situation, there should raise the listener’s’ tolerance in the direction of foreign- accented speech and also the pronunciation of speaker should be improved by the instruction given to L2 learners.

Especially for English, the guidance of competent pronunciation is necessary because English is an international communication language. The pronunciation instruction is cheered in many areas but still it is neglected in English classes. For practicing the pronunciation, sufficient emphasis should be put by Secondary school teachers that plays an important role in successful communication for attaining the grammar and vocabulary.

Varieties of pronunciation both native and non-native are available in the English language. For the successful communication with the people of different varieties, multiple accents should be exposed by learners. Hence, it is necessary to provide the pronunciation instruction in a single classroom. With the student, teachers would be able to use multiple accents during the maintenance of proficient pronunciation. Thus, fundamental decision must make by which an appropriate model of pronunciation could be made for the students (Jaksic and Sturm, 2017)

There are three different angles form which effect of accent strength can be measured. These three different angles are: Comparison of accent strength that may be strong, and weak with native, the listener group native and non-native and last one is dependent variables like understanding and attitudes. Understanding and attitude are seen between native and non-native. The accent and native are correlated to each other. Three relation are formed as: strong accent compared to weak accent, strong accent compared to native accent and weak accent compared to native accent (https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl)

Dialect and Accent

Standard English is an ideal variety of English. This standard variety is used in the mass media, education, printed books and news, and this is taught as a second or foreign language. Many kinds of standard variation of language that are depend on where it is spoken i.e., Standard American English (SAmE) and Standard British English (SBrE). Accent is referred to the speaker pronunciation from which the place of speaker regionally and socially can be identified. According to the definition, each person has their accent that marks their belonging regionally or socially. While speaking with Dialect that is related to the features of grammar and vocabulary. One dialect can be spoken with the varieties of accents. Standard English is linked with the Received Pronunciation (RP) accent (McGee, 2009).