Improving Students’ Speaking Ability Through Three Step Interview Technique

The purpose of this research is to find out how the use of Three Step Interview Technique can improve the eleventh grade of students’ speaking ability. Kind of this research is classroom action research (CAR). The subject of this research is the students from eleventh grade of students. Test and Observation Checklist are used to obtain the data. The design of action research are preliminary study, planning, acting, observing and reflecting. Three step interview technique improves the students’ speaking ability in two cycles from the percentage of students who got score ≥70 was 55% of the twenty students in Cycle 1 to 80% of the twenty students in Cycle 2. The observation checklist result from 65% of students’ active participation in Cycle 1 to 77,5% of students’ active participation in Cycle 2. Based on the data above, it can be concluded that the use of Three Step Interview Technique can improve the eleventh grade students’ speaking ability of MA Miftahul Ulum Suren Ledokombo.