Jadila: Journal of Development and Innovation E-ISSN: 2723-6900 in Language and Literature Education P-ISSN: 2745-9578 Publisher: Yayasan Karinosseff Muda Indonesi Volume 2 Number 2, 2021 Page 212-223 212 The Use of Brainstorming Strategy to Improve Students’ Speaking Ability Hapri Octarina IAIN Bengkulu hapri@gmail.com Syamsul Rizal IAIN Bengkulu syamsulrizal@gmail.com Fera Zasrianita IAIN Bengkulu ferazasrianita@gmail.com Abstract The purpose of this study to investigate whether brainstorming strategy can improve the Keywords: Strategy, Brainstorming, Speaking Ability A. Introduction Speaking is not easy, so learners need extra effort to master the skill of course because we have to really learn. Therefore, English teachers are demanded to be more creative in presenting their lessons, especially the speaking subject since it is considered as the difficult skill to be mastered, learning especially speaking because they are considered to be difficult skills to master, learning to speak is clearly more difficult than learning to understand spoken language. The students are expected to be able to speak English in the classroom along with their mother tongue. They also expected to be able to ask a question students’ speaking ability. The subject of research was XI IPA 2 in Academic year 2020/2021. The design of this research is classroom action research (CAR). The researcher evaluates the students’ speaking in five forms those are, Pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. Before doing cycle 1 the researcher gave speaking test of pre-cycle, based on the result the test in pre-cycle; the researcher gave treatments of action 1 and action 2 they are planning, implementing, observing and reflecting to see improvement of students’ speaking ability after the treatments were given. The brainstorming strategy can improve the students’ speaking ability in two cycle. Then the researcher find out there is a significance difference between the mean score of students’ speaking ability in cycle 1 (62,24) and the mean score of students’ speaking ability in cycle 2 (75,68). There is impact of cycle 2 and the result can achieve the criteria of success. By comparing the means, the researcher concluded that improvement students’ speaking ability through brainstorming strategy is an effective to develop students’ speaki ng skill. Therefore, English teacher are encourage to teach speaking through brainstorming strategy.