Teaching speaking recount text is one of material in learning teaching process which aimed to make the students can retell their past experiences in recount text. The purposes of this research are to describe the implementation of conversation starter in teaching speaking recount text and to describe the students’ responses using conversation starter starter in teaching speaking recount text to retell their past experiences. The subjects of this study were 32 tenth grade students of Social. This research used descriptive research design where data analysis that used were data reduction, data display and conclusion drawing. To get the data activity of using the conversation starter in learning teaching process, the reseacher used field note while the result of students’ questionnaires was used by the researcher to get the students’ responses in using conversation starter to retell their past experience. From the result of students’ questionnaires found that, about 59,37% students agree conversation starter helps them in speaking confidently when they retell their past experience. From the result of the average of students’ questionnaires, about 61,87% siswa gave the agree respons. Based from the result of percentage can be concluded that the students agree that conversation starter used by the teacher in teaching speaking recount text.