Abstract name : maryam student no. : 0906102050086 study program : english education title : the use of video to teach speaking ability in accuracy (an experimental research at man darussalam aceh besar) this study was conducted because video can help students understand the language more easily (hu 2006). besides, itfocused on the use of video in teaching students’ speaking in accuracy at second grade of man darussalam aceh besar which consists of 20 students. in addition, the writer concerns with the use of communicative approach in teaching speaking skill. in this study, the writer used the experimental research in order to test the hypothesis. the instrument used to collect data in this study was by means of the test in the form of oral test. the result of the test was analyzed by using speaking criteria proposed by brown (2004). from the results of the study, it was found that the mean of pre test and post test were different. the, t-test was 6.88