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The study involved 31 eighth-grade students of SMP Negeri 35 Samarinda in the 2022 academic year. Quantitative analysis used pre-test and post-test to measure mean speaking scores and track improvements in fluency, pronunciation, grammar, and comprehension. Results showed increased enthusiasm, active participation, and rising mean scores across cycles. Duolingo was concluded effective for speaking practice.","Improving Students’ Speaking Skills by Using Duolingo Application  \nAuthor  \nYelsa Dearestiani  \nWidya Gama Mahakam University, Indonesia [dearestianiyelsa4@gmail.com](dearestianiyelsa4@gmail.com)[ ](dearestianiyelsa4@gmail.com)[https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4507-0319](https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4507-0319)  \nAbdul Rohman  \nWidya Gama Mahakam University, Indonesia [abdulrohman@uwgm.ac.id](abdulrohman@uwgm.ac.id)  \nWidi Syahtia Pane  \nWidya Gama Mahakam University, Indonesia [widi.pane@gmail.com](widi.pane@gmail.com)  \nAbstract  \nBackground:  \nThis research aimed to find out the Improving Students’ Speaking Skills by Using Duolingo Application. The subject of this research was a class which consisted of 31 students at eight grade of SMP Negeri 35 Samarinda 2022 Academic year. The research was conducted by using Classroom Action Research (CAR) and the technique of analyzing the data of this research was using quantitative data. The quantitative data were taken from the test such as: Pre-test and Post-test to find the mean score of students speaking. It showed that the improving of students speaking skills through Duolingo application could improve students speaking skills and could give an effect on students speaking fluency. The students got more enthusiastic, active and interested in learning English language. So, it can be concluded that the improving of students’ speaking skills through Duolingo application was effective to improve their speaking fluency, pronoun, grammar, and comprehension.  \nMethodology:  \nThis research is design to look at the problem in a class about how to fix the problem and improve Students English skills.  \nFindings:  \nThe researcher did the research and got the complete data from all the research instruments.  \nConclusion:  \nDuolingo improves students' speaking skills. According to research, using Duolingo to practice speaking improves speaking skills. The study found that the mean score increased in every cycle.  \nOriginality:  \nThis research aimed to find out the Improving Students’ Speaking Skills by Using Duolingo Application. This Research design is to look at the problem in a class about to fix the speaking skills and the researcher did the research and got the complete data. From this conclusion Duolingo Application is works to help the teacher teach the students in a class especially on their speaking ability.  \nKeywords : Speaking skills; Duolingo Application; and Classroom Action Research.  \n\n| DOI | : | 10.53622/ij.v1i02.179 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Received | : | January 2023 |\n| Accepted | : | March 2023 |\n| Published | : | April 2023 |\n| Copyright and License | : | Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.\u003Cbr>|\n\n1. INTRODUCTION  \nEnglish Language has become an international language, and English is one of the four subjects that are nationally tested in Indonesia. However, only a small percentage of students in each school have adequate abilities in the four English competencies of speaking, writing, reading, and listening, with speaking being the most important. Total number of pupils who have demonstrated mastery of the four skills. Conversely, there exists a percentage of students with absolutely minimal ability. This could be due to a lack of student enthusiasm for learning, limited scheduled time, insufficient resources and materials, and the fact that students have previously seen spoken English as extremely difficult (Alsowat, 2017; Fareed et al. 2018) . Language is essential in the modern day, particularly English, for expanding connection with other nations. 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