Improving Students’ Speaking Ability Through Substitution Drill

The purpose of this research is to know how Substitution Drill can improve the seventh grade of students’ speaking ability. Kind of this research is classroom action research (CAR). The subject of this research is the students from seventh D class consisting of 25 students. Speaking test are used to obtain the data. The design of action research are preliminary study, planning, acting, observing and reflecting. e technique improves the students’ speaking ability in two cycles from the percentage of students who got score ≥70 was 56% of 25 students in Cycle 1 to 76% of 25 students in Cycle 2. Based on the the data above, it can be concluded that the use of Substitution Drill can improve the seventh grade students’ speaking ability at SMPN 1 Grujugan.