The goal of this research was to see if sequence pictures used as media in teaching speaking through storytelling could significantly help students develop their speaking ability. This research made use of an experimental research design in a quantitative method. When a control class that was taught through drilling method and experimental class which was instructed through sequence pictures. The study involved the first grade of senior high school students at SMA Negeri 5 Semarang. The data which had collected data computed by using SPSS 25. This finding said which using sequence pictures in teaching speaking could improve significantly in the experimental class students’ speaking ability. The students’ speaking ability in both classes control and experimental was different significantly as indicated by the test scores. The control class average pre-test was 69,5 and experimental class was 85 in other hand, the control class average post-test was 74,5 and experimental class was 91,7. This revealed that students who were taught to speak using the sequence pictures technique fared better than those who were taught using the drill technique. In addition, the findings from the study showed that four speaking sub-skills, viz: fluency, pronunciation, content, and vocabularies accuracy were all better instructed by using sequence pictures.

Keywords: Sequence Pictures, Speaking Sub-skills, Speaking.