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  • The problems faced by the students at senior high school 4 Pekanbaru in speaking English really needed help and solution. In this case, appropriate technique was one of the good solutions to improve the students’ speaking ability by applying the group-to-group exchange strategy as a replacement of previous strategy. The purpose of this research was to know whether or not there was significant difference of using group-to-group exchange strategy toward speaking ability of the second year students at senior high school 4 Pekanbaru. The researcher carried out the formulation of the problem that would be answered by using the research quantitative. That was quasi-experimental research by using non-equivalent control group design. The design based on pre-test, post-test and the use of control group were employed in this research. To analyze the data, the researcher used independent t-test formula by using SPSS 16. The result of analyzing data of t-test was 9.479. it was compared tot-table at significant level 5% (2.00) and significant level 1% (2.65), to (tobservation) was higher than t-table. In conclusion, null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted which showed 2.00<9.476>2.65. It means that there was significant effect of using group-to group exchange strategy toward speaking ability of the second year students at senior high school 4 Pekanbaru. In other words, it indicated that the implementation of group-to-group exchange strategy was effective from the data above, it can be concluded that the students’ ability in speaking had been improved by using group-to-group exchange strategy