Abstract name : mauliza safrina student no. : 1309200080032 department/program : english education/graduate title : the use of task based language teaching approach in teaching speaking keywords: speaking, task based language teaching approach. this study is aimed to investigate the use of task based language teaching approach to enhance the students' speaking skills and their responses toward the use of task based language teaching approach. it was done experimentally with two classes that were experimental and control groups. the subject of this research was the 2nd grader of smp islam al mujaddid 2017/2018 with the class vii/b as the experimental group consist with 14 students and class vii/c as the control group consist with 14 students. the intruments provided were test and questionnaire which were distributed to both experimental and control groups. the data for test was analyzed by using some statistical formulas such as t-test, the wilcoxon test, and the