Abstract name : ratna dewi student number : 0806102020104 study program : english education title : the implementation of role play technique to improve students’ achievement in speaking. keywords: role play technique, students’ achievement, speaking. the role play technique used in this study is based on the student difficulty in mastery speaking skill. this technique aims to involve students’ speaking in their real life situation. the objective of this study is to measure the students’ mastery after they practice speaking through role play. in order to address this issue,a quantitative study was conducted on second year students of smp negeri 10 banda aceh. the design used in this study was one group experimental design. the result of this study showed that role play technique is able to improve students’ achievement in speaking. the mean scores of post-test is higher than the mean score of pre-test (13,14>7,85). in means that the students’ achievement in speaking skill