An Analysis on Students' Effort to Improve Speaking Skill

: The research aimed to find out the kinds of students' effort in improving speaking skill and the aspects of speaking skill that mostly developed by the students. The subject of this research was 69 students in fourth semester of English education study program. The method used in this research is survey method. College students Experiences questionnaire (CSEQ) and the questionnaire of the aspects speaking skill were used as the primary tools of data collection. The data showed that the activities of students' effort were varied. There were 20 college activities recognized as students' efforts. Which included in five activities scale; course learning, art music and theater, campus facilities, personal experiences, and speaking experiences. The aspect of speaking skill mostly developed on students' effort was comprehensibility which the highest scores 72.19 %. So, the fourth semester students used several kinds of effort to improve speaking skill in various college activities scale, and the aspect of speaking skill mostly developed by the students was comprehensibility