use of relative clause. All those features will be used in order to know the effects toward the understanding of the story.
B. Method of the Study
The method that the writer uses for this study is an empirical research since the research relies on the primary data that are used. The writer used a literary text,
August Wilson’s Fences, as the primary data because all of the data are taken from this literary work.
The writer also uses library research and field research. The library research is carried out in order to answer the first problem formulation since it needs to collect
many books, thesis, and dictionary to provide the complete data. The writer carries out this research by reading some theory books and thesis concerning with the topic
to help the writer in conducting this research. Field research is used by the writer to answer the second problem formulation because to find the effects of those Black
English features toward understanding of the play cannot be answered based on library research. Conducting a questionnaire distribution is done to help the writer in
finding the effects that might be arisen. Another method that the writer uses is the contrastive method. In this case the
writer tries to contrast the Black English Structure and the Standard English Structure. The next step is that the writer classified the differences. Then the writer
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C. Research Procedure
1. Data Collection
To support the writer in answering the two problem formulations, there would be one main source and one supportive source. The main source used by the writer to
collect the data of the mistaken structures of Black English was a play written by August Wilson’s as the primary source. It was Fences taken from Understanding
Plays published by Milly S. Barranger in 1990. Fences was a story about the life of African American in 1957 in an American “big-city neighborhood” Barranger, 533
who “sold the use of their muscles and their bodies” Barranger, 532 to be able to live. All of the characters were a poor Black English family; most of them were
uneducated and spoke in distinctive Black English. Here, the writer only chooses Troy Maxon’s utterances as the data.
This thesis used that play because the writer thought that Fences could represent the lives of Black People using the Black English structure which was quite different
from Standard English and that play contained enough data for the writer to be analyzed. From that play the writer found the features of Black English Structure that
were different from Standard English. The other source considered as the supportive source was concerned on the
respondents who were filled questionnaires. The questionnaires consisted of open- ended questions were distributed in May-June 2008. The respondents were everyone
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