Object of the Study

discussing Black English and the study gives benefit to enrich students’ understanding in English varieties. The respondents consisted of 15 respondents that came from different backgrounds of education. These fifteen respondents were enough for the writer to distribute any opinion that the play was understandable or not. They were asked to fill the questionnaires that had been prepared by the writer. The respondents are two persons whose L1 is English. They are chosen to be the respondents because the writer wants to know how they understand the Black English. They are an American native speaker and a Swiss girl. The first respondent R1 is an American native speaker who lectures in Sanata Dharma University. She teaches Cross Cultural Understanding. The second respondent R2 is the other Native speaker who leaves in Indonesia since she was born. She is called Native speaker because her mother tongue is English. Her citizenship is Swiss. The writer also has six respondents who are the students of English Letters in Sanata Dharma University. They consist of four students who always get GPA above 3 R3, R4, R5 and R6 and two students who do not always get GPA above 3 R7 and R8. They are in 8 th semester. The reason why the writer chooses 6 students is that the play was discussed in their class. Other respondents are 2 Senior High School teachers in Solo R9 and R10 and two English trainers in LEAVES Learning English as A Vital Enhancing who give a training to Panti Rapih Hospital’ staff R11 and R12. Since they are teachers who focus on teaching Standard English, the writer asks them to be the respondents. Whether they have knowledge in other dialects beside Standard English might be seen in filling the questionnaires. The last respondents are students in 2 nd semester from Sanata Dharma University R13, R14 and R15. Since there is an assumption that senior students have better knowledge in English than junior students, they have function as central variable.

2. Data Analysis

The first step in analyzing the data was examining all the dialogues in the play then identifying Troy Maxon’s utterances which belong to Black English structure. The identification was done through examining the utterances and looking at the feature of Black English structure. To answer the first problem formulation, the first step was classifying the utterances. The classification of the data was made based on the similar mistaken structure in that play. Next was deciding the features of Black English structure in what way they were different from Standard English Structure. Such as: omission of auxiliary verb, lack of subject-verb agreement, the use of be and done, the use ain’t, double negation and multiple negation, incorrect use of determiner and pronoun, incorrect plural, incorrect past participle and incorrect use of relative clause. The next step was classifying the data into the group of the feature of Black English. The last step was comparing Black English structure with Standard English structure and correcting the data into correct sentences based on Standard English structure. For answering the second problem formulation, the writer used questionnaire for collecting data in order to know the effects of Black English feature toward the PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI