Improving Students' Speaking Skills Through Interview Technique

The purpose of this research is to improve students' speaking skills by using interview technique. This research used a classroom action research as form of research. The subject of this research is class VIII A at SMP Negeri 19 Pontianak in academic year 2014/2015 which consists of 40 students. The techniques of collecting data in this research are observation and measurement and the tools of collecting data are observation checklist, field notes and test of speaking. Based on the data revealed in observation, there were improvements in students' speaking skills in every cycle. Students' mean score in the first cycle was 48% which was categorized poor. In the second cycle the mean score of students was 59% which was categorized poor to average. Then, in the third cycle the mean score of students was 72% which was categorized average to good. In conclusion, Interview Technique improves the students' speaking skills at second grade students of SMP Negeri 19 Pontianak in academic year 2014/2015