Enhancing Students’ Speaking Skill Through Three-Step Interview

The aim of this study is to enhance students’ speaking ability through Three Step Interview technique and also to find out students’ responses toward the use of this technique in English speaking classroom. The design of this study is Pre-experimental design, the population of this study is students of MAN 2 Aceh Besar which consists of 195 students. The sample are 20 students of class X A1 in the first grade. They wre chosen by using purposive sampling. The data in this study were collected though test and questionnaire. The writer used statistical and percentage formula to analyze the data. The result of the study indicates that the mean score of students is 62 in pre-test and 67 in post-test. It means that the students’ ability in English speaking skill is improved. Moreover, the data from questionnaire show almost all of students give positive responses toward the Three-step Interview technique. It is indicated on the percentage of the questionnaire answers in which the percentage of positive response is higher than the negative response. In brief, Three-step Interview can improve the English speaking skill of students.