Traditionally, European pupils have learnt Received Pronunciation and
British English vocabulary, Preisler (1999:239) argues. Until 1945, Standard
British English was the teaching norm at European Universities and the teaching
of English is still to a large extent based on Received Pronunciation and Standard
British English although other varieties, especially American English has become
more popular since then. Today’s Swedish television has a great number of
American movies and TV-shows and the pupils are surrounded by English music,
TV, computer games etc after they have finished their school day. As a result,
Swedish pupils are considered to speak English very well compared to pup