Abstract name : rini venta almira student number : 1206102020066 study program : english education title : the implementation of information gap technique in teaching speaking in smpn 13 banda aceh (an experimental quantitative research at grade ix-i at smpn13 banda aceh) keyword: speaking, information gap, communicative approach this study aims at examining whether or not the use of information gap technique can improve students’ performance in english speaking ability and helps teachers in teaching speaking. in order to cope the problems faced by the students in learning speaking, the experimental of pre-test and post-test design was undertaken. the instrument used to collect the data in this study was a set of test. the collected data were analyzed by using descriptive statistic formula. the result of the test was analyzed by using speaking criteria suggested by brown (2001). from the result of the study it reveals that the result of post-test of four aspects in