Improving Students’ Speaking Skill Through Role Play

This study aims to find out whether Role Play improves students’ speaking skill of students of MAN 1 Aceh Besar. The sample of this research was class XII MIA 1, Quantitative research used in this study with the population class XII MIA 1. The focus of this research is to find out whether role play improves students’ speaking skill, the sample was chosen based on the fact that this class is the superior one, according to the school teacher. 30 students from class XII MIA 1 were selected as the sample for this study. The researcher used an oral pre-test and post-test to gather data. based on these tests, it can be shown that the student’s speaking performance while employing role is better, as seen by the post-test score being higher than the pre-test, which was 49,53 and the post-tets score being 64,74. The research hopes to reach the conclusion that role-playing exercises helped the students’ oral communication skills. It implies that speaking skill improvement and role play significantly related.