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This research is aimed to find out whether role play and discussion methods were able to enhance students’ progress on speaking skills. The researchers also attempt to investigate whether role play or discussion method better enhancing the students’ speaking performance after the teaching-learning process conducted. To achieve these aims, the quasi-experimental research design is employed. The data were gathered from 60 students of twelfth grade in one of the vocational high schools in Pandeglang, Banten. The sample of the research were taken randomly by using lottery and the students were divided into experimental and control groups. Some instruments like pre-test post-test were employed to collect the data. At the end of the study, many advantages were found to improve the students’ speaking skill including vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation aspect. Both groups indicated to experience improvement, but the experimental group showed more advanced enhancement indicated by their achieving to reach the ‘good’ category in speaking. While none of the students from the control group could get that. Conclusively, students taught by the discussion method show more improvement with 19.93 as their mean score. While students by role-play method have 13.73 as their mean score. It is significantly different from both methods indicated by the significance value score of 0.14 which is less than 0.05. Hence, the discussion method is more effective than the role-play method in improving students’ speaking ability. For that reason, it is recommended for teachers to use discussion method to improve students’ speaking comprehension. Keywords— speaking, teaching speaking, speaking strategies, role-play method, discussion method A. INTRODUCTION The aim of focusing on teaching speaking in vocational high school is to prepare the students to enter the world of work. There were many reasons when one study English, first they want to be part of International network, secondly, the students’ speaking ability especially English becomes one of the core competencies required by many recruiters. Good communication skill is completely required once the students graduate from school. Meanwhile, graduates who do not have excellent communication will suffer badly in this era of competition. McKay et.al. (2011) mentions that there are many reasons why someone chooses to study English; Access to jobs and communication. More specifically, Eramust (2015) explained that the ultimate aim of learning a language is to communicate, and speaking is one of the central elements of communication. However, teaching English as a second language is not always easy, especially in improving students’ speaking ability. Students are often worried about making mistakes, fearful of criticism or simply being shy. Not only have that, but the accent of the mother

A Comparative Study between the Use of Role Play and Discussion Method in Teaching Speaking Ability