Abstract The aimed of this research was to find out the effectiveness of hot seating strategy to improve the students’ speaking skill at SMP NEGERI 3 Madang Suku III OKU TIMUR. This research adopted pre-experimental research design. The subject of this research was first students’ of SMP NEGERI 3 Madang Suku III OKU TIMUR which consisted of 31 students with 12 boys and 19 girls. Pre-test and post-test was done to collect the data. The instrument of the test was oral speaking test. Paired sample t-test was used to compare the data from pre-test and post-test. The finding showed that Mean score of pre-test was 46.63 and the mean score of post-test was 53.27. The value of t-obtained = 2.653 was more than t-table = 2.024 with df = 30 and the value of sig. (2-tailed) was 0.000 less than significance level (α = 0.05).). The conclusion, hot seating strategy was significantly effective to improve students’ speaking skill. Keywords: effectiveness, hot seating strategy, improve, speaking skill
                        
                        
                        
                        
                            
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