Abstract :
The objective of this study was to find out whether using onversation cards was effective for teaching speaking or not. The population of this study was the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 2 Bumiayu, Brebes regency in the academic year 2015/2016. The number of the subjects was 60 students. The samples of the study were class VII A as experimental class which consisted of 30 students and class VII B as control class which consisted of 30 students. The design of this study was an experimental study. The writer used tests that consisted of pre and post-test in collecting the data and used quantitative method to analyze the data. The data were analyzed by using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science) 16 program. After the data had been collected by using tests, it was found that in Independent Samples Test between control and experimental class got score sig was 0.012 (more than 0.05) and the score from t-test and Equal Variance Assumed was 0.002 (less than 0.05). It mean that both of classes had same variant but had different achievement. It can be seen from comparing the means both of the classes; it was found that the mean of experimental class was 76.47 which were higher than control class 66.27. Then the result of the mean of post-test of experimental class was 76.47 which were higher than pre-test 71.00. For that reason, it could be concluded that conversation cards was effective for teaching speaking on the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 2 Bumiayu in the acdemic year 2015/2016.