Students’ Engagement in Speaking Class through a Three-Step Interview Technique

The objective of this research was to explain the students’ response towards the use of Three-Step Interview technique in their engagement in speaking class and to find out benefit of Three-Step Interview technique for students’ in speaking class. The researcher employed qualitative technique and participants were selected by purposive sampling technique. The research was conducted to the fourth-semester students of English Study Program of IAIN Bone. the data were collected by observational field notes and interview to obtain the information about the response from students and to find the benefit of Three-Step Interview. the result of this interview could guide the study to see the response and benefit of Three-Step Interview while studying English. The result of the study about the students’ responses, most of them gave the positive responses except that there was negative respond about the technique. The benefits of Three-Step Interview which are evidenced from the data interview and observational field notes based on the indications of engagement they are: behavioral engagement such as the students are active in studying speaking. While, the emotional engagement such as the students’ interested, enjoyed, fun and can cooperating well with their peers. Whereas, cognitive engagement the students collected their assignment