The objective of this study is to look at some given theories and/or research on the use of role play method for teaching speaking skill and to upgrade the quality of teaching English to students that on some aspects recently was out of care. This study focus on the implementation of role plays technique to foster senior high school students’ speaking skill. The study found that role play is very suitable method for senior high school students because it can make them enjoy, fun, and absence of the stress in learning process. It is also very memorable. The implementation of role play as one of active learning method will give positive impact to the success of teaching because it makes them enthusiastic. It is also found that the students are highly motivated and pleased to learn the language by using this method in teaching speaking aspect of language. The procedure of the application of role play technique in speaking class are as followings: deciding material for discussing, selecting situation and creating dialogue text, teaching the dialogue, practicing the dialogue, modifying situation and dialogue, and presenting the dialogue in front of the class. The method used in this study is library research. Readings obtained from various are processed and described in a descriptive way. Based on the research findings and experts’ statements, it is found that role play is effective to enhance the students’ speaking skill. This study is expected to be useful for other English teachers.