INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND INNOVATION IN SOCIAL SCIENCE (IJRISS) ISSN No. 2454-6186 | DOI: 10.47772/IJRISS |Volume VIII Issue IIIS March 2024 | Special Issue on Education Page 12 www.rsisinternational.org A Sociophonetic Study on the English Accent Varied among Three England National Footballers Sidónio António Pires, Ouda Teda Ena Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.47772/IJRISS.2024.803002S Received: 29 February 2024; Accepted: 19 March 2024; Published: 10 April 2024 ABSTRACT English accents have been under discussion by many researchers. It seems that English native speakers still lack cohesion in terms of phonetic features. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the English accents that varied among England’s national footballers to find out what sounds are practiced and how they are categorized socially. Three of them, namely Harry Kane, Luck Shaw, and Harry Maguire, and their interview videos were used as instruments in this study. The data gained were analyzed qualitatively to elicit meaning, gain understanding, and develop empirical knowledge. To help analyze and generate the findings, Estuary English, Received Pronunciation, and Cockney accents were also highlighted here in this study. The findings revealed that these three players happened to share a prestige accent, namely Estuary English, which contains RP and Cockney accents. It is confirmed when the three of them share the most common phonetic features, such as t-glottalization and th-glotalization. For the l-vocalization, it was difficult to determine which accent they belonged to because it was not used often. For h-dropting, neither of the speakers used h-dropping. However, it is also found that each player still has a regional accent. INTRODUCTION In today’s world, to get to know Br itish English accents, we do not need to go overseas to discover the accents varied among the speakers in the country. For instance, internet platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, WhatsApp, etc., can enable us to expose ourselves to the different accents of the English language through videos that people upload on these platforms. These platforms are helpful in the sense that people can experience different accents. Kim and Kim(2021) found in their study that YouTube can be used to understand cultural and linguistic ranges. It means that YouTube can help improve cross-cultural sensitivity, build content in L2, and refine information on worldwide language accents. Correspondingly, in this study, the researchers would like to use YouTube channels to identify English accents practiced by three England national footballers. Because as foreign English teachers and learners, we might think that British people only speak one standard English accent within the country. However, British people themselves have varieties of English pronunciations that distinguish them into several accents. As I listened to the interviews of England National footballers, I discovered several differences in the accents they used. For instance, England footballers, namely Harry Kane, Luck Shaw, and Harry Maguire, represent a variety of accents in the United Kingdom. I come to realize that they speak very different English accents. Considering these accents made by the players mentioned implies that there are many variations in English Pronunciation across the country. Brenda (2020) stated that there is no single accent in the UK because there are more than thirty-seven dialects spoken across the country. As a result, it shapes people’s accents when it comes to the matter of speaking. The accents include Received Pronunciation (RP), Cockney, Brummie,